“‘To show the ignorance and simplicity of our travelling’ lady, we give the following,—­and what will the North say to this new argument in favor of slavery? namely, a truckle-cart! a black boy riding!! two white boys giving him a ride!!! and three girls, one of them black! arm in arm!! romping.  ’It is not the fault of this writer, that she cannot understand a principle;’ ’she is a New England Orthodox,’—­’and a fair specimen of the limitations of that type of mankind.’  ’But does not the lady know,’ why negro boys are put in truckle-carts?  ’If not, any of her Southern friends could have told her.’  We can tell her; ’we have lived at the South.’  These white boys were sent on an errand with their cart, and to increase its momentum down hill, and, withal, to tease and worry a fellow-creature, with a skin not colored like their own, they made this poor slave-boy get in.  She should have seen the poor creature trudging home, up hill, under a Southern sun, after the little white tyrants had done with him, unless it was the case, which we more than half suspect, that the ride was a stratagem to convey the poor child to the auction-block.  ‘How the merry dogs,’ the white boys, must have laughed at this Northern lady’s complacent looks at them.  She had no tears for the poor old white-headed negro, who, hearing the word ‘school’ from the lips of his white young masters, had such a rush of sorrow come over his soul at the thought of the midnight ignorance in which the slave-driver’s whip had kept him, that he actually dropped his burden in the public street, and uttered incautious words, for which, no doubt, old as he was, he caught a terrible flogging.  “Why, in the name of humanity, did not the authoress load her pages, as she might so easily have done, with scenes like that in the cars?  There is slavery! patent! undisguised!  In the other cases it is slavery, indeed, but covered with the pro-slavery lady’s snow-white napkin.”

Here is a review of me and of my little stories, by a distinguished New England divine, and author.  He has written much on slavery.  Having prepared notices of some of his writings on this subject, I am familiar with his turns of thought and modes of expression.  I have great regard for him, and always read him with pleasure and profit, not excepting when he writes as follows, in doing which he has the approbation of large numbers among the Northern clergy of all denominations, except the Episcopalians,—­who, more than other Northern ministers, are remarkably free from ultraisms.

“Concerning the truckle-cart, ‘we would say this,’ that unquestionably ‘the moral power’ of the incident was all which the writer assumes, but its ‘logical sequences’ ‘we utterly deny.’  Slavery is evil, and only evil, and that continually; now, to infer that agreeable relations can subsist between the children of masters and the children of slaves under the ‘immense, malignant, and all-pervading influence of slavery,’ abhorred of Heaven and all good men, does violence to all sound principles of reasoning, and is at war with ’the manifest rules of Providence.’