“And as to the three girls ‘we are prepared to say’ that the author ’did not look deep enough’ into the philosophy of human motives under the controlling power of slavery.  For slavery makes men improvident, and their children also; (see ‘Judge Jay,’ ‘Weld on Slavery,’ etc.) These white girls, therefore, probably had no money in their pockets; it was the time of recess; they were hungry; the black child we presume had money in her pocket, for by the authoress’s own showing (in the story of a slave changing a gold piece for the landlord), slaves may have money of their own.  Had our authoress followed her trio down to the confectioner’s, there she might have seen these white children cajoling the poor black, and making her treat them; in preparation for which they affected to put their arms around her; but, in the true diabolical spirit of slavery, it was only to devour.

“We have no space to enter philosophically into the instruction afforded us by the old negro and the schoolboys; but there is deep meaning in it, which the true friends of the slave, who may read it, will do well to ponder.  The old negro is the prophetic representation of his down-trodden race, crying with bewildered accents, he heeds not where, ‘Go to school! boys; go to school!’ Let a united North echo back his words, suiting their political action to them, and saying to the colored children, with an authority which shall shake the very pillars of the Union, ‘Go to school, boys! go to school!’

“Nor can we, for the tears which dim our sight, speak as we would of the wretched master and his amiable slave in the cars.  The sketch reminded us of the best in ‘Uncle Tom.’  We need books filled with such pictures, to electrify the slumbering sensibilities of the North.  Wanton candor in speaking of slavery, is the most unpardonable of sins.  There is a time to tell the whole truth; but the wise man says.  There is ’a time to keep silence.’”

I did not pretend, Gentlemen Reviewers, that my little, pleasing incidents were arguments in favor of slavery; you should not have been so alarmed; you are really rude; I almost feel disposed to say to you, for each of my tales, as the Rosemary said to the Wild Boar,—­

  “Sus, apage! haud tibi spiro;”

which, not having a poetical friend near to translate for me, I venture to render as follows:—­

  “Thus to the Boar replied the Rosemary: 
  O swine, depart!  I do not breathe for thee.”

In noticing the manner in which many Northern writers, some of them amiable men, receive the candid views and statements of travellers and visitors at the South, I have been made to think of a company of the owls, such as you see in Audubon, listening to the reading of David’s one hundred and fourth Psalm, in which he describes nature.  Not a smile of satisfaction; on the contrary, if you

  “Molest the ancient, solitary reign”