&e.  Thereupon I became calmer, and replied, “Sir, you are perfectly aware that our Saviour’s mission was to the heart of man, and not to the institutions of man.  Did He not instruct his subjugated countrymen to pay tribute to Caesar? and did He not set the example in his own person?  Did He not instruct his disciples in the same breath, ’Fear God! honour the king?’—­and is it not elsewhere written, ’But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil?’ You are also perfectly aware that the American colonies refused to pay tribute to their Caesar, refused to honour their king, and did resist the evil.  Now, sir, these things being so, you are compelled to admit one of two alternatives—­either the whole of your countrymen are rebels against the Most High, and therefore aliens from God, or else, as I before said, the mission of the Gospel is to the hearts and not to the institutions of man.  I see, sir, by the way you winced under the term ‘rebel,’ that you accept the latter alternative.  If, then, it be addressed to the heart of man, it is through that channel—­as it becomes enlarged by those virtues of which you spoke, kindness and sympathy—­that human institutions are to become modified to suit the growing intelligence and growing wants of the human race, the golden rule for man’s guidance being, Do as you would be done by.  Be kind enough, sir, to look at Mr. Sambo Caesar working under the lash in a Carolina rice swamp; behold Mrs. Sambo Caesar torn from his bosom, and working under the same coercive banner in Maryland; and little Master Pompey, the only pledge of their affections, on his way to Texas.  Is not this a beautiful comment on the Divine command, ’Love thy neighbour as thyself?’ Permit me, sir, with all due respect, to urge you not to rest satisfied with preaching Christian resignation to the slave, and Christian kindness to the owner, but to seize every opportunity of fearlessly asserting that slavery is at variance with the spirit of the Gospel, and therefore that it behoves all Christians so to modify and change the laws respecting it, as gradually to lead to its total extinction.  Good morning.”—­The reverend gentleman, who during the latter part of my observations had buried his hands in the bottom of his tail pockets, no sooner saw that I had finished my remarks, than he hastily withdrew his hands, exhibiting in one a Testament, in the other a Concordance; he evidently was rampant for controversy, but the next deputy, who thought I had already devoted an unfair proportion of time to the minister, reminded him of the regulations, and he was obliged to retire, another deputy opening the door for him, as both his hands were full.