I do not suppose that Northern people, where slavery is not legalized, are any better than the Southern people where it is legalized.  Each section of the Union has its virtues and vices.  I do not suppose that England, where slavery is not legalized, is any better than America where it is legalized.  There is more or less injustice and oppression everywhere.  It looks well in England to talk about oppression in the United States.  “Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye.”  Look at down trodden Ireland, thou despotic tyrant.  And ye dukes and lords, ye pinks of mortality, professing to be Christians, have ye forgotten the words of Divine inspiration?  “He that hath of this worlds goods, and seeth his brother have need, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” Look at your tenantry, the millions of miserable wretches on your own soil, whose condition is far worse than that of the African slaves in the United States?  And ye bishops! ye overseers of the flock of Christ? with your princely salaries! surrounded by wealth, splendor, and luxury!  Have ye ever thought of the millions, that are starving around you, not only for the bread of eternal life, but also for that which is essential to the sustenance of animal life!  Woe to you, ye hypocrites.  Ye wolves in sheep’s clothing!  Bow your heads with shame, and repent in sack-cloth, or else as surely as there is a God in heaven, you will have “your portion in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone.”

Some people at the North are constantly harping on the subject of slavery, and yet lo! when some one emancipates a slave in the South, and he straggles off to the North, every one with whom he meets gives him a kick.  Benevolent souls, look at the treatment which the Randolph negroes received in the state of Ohio.  If slaves are emancipated where are they to go?  Where will they find an asylum?  Not in the North?  For Northern legislatures are already telling them by prohibitory enactments, here, you cannot come.  “O consistency! thou art a jewel, a pearl of great price,” a virtue rarely met with.

Abolitionists make a great noise about slavery, some of them, no doubt, conscientious and sincere; but there are many among them, should they remove to the South, that would in less than five years own a cotton farm or a sugar plantation well stocked with negroes.  Facts have in many instances verified the truth of this assertion.  Men have frequently emigrated from the free states to the South, professedly abolitionists, and after getting into one or two difficulties with the excitable Southerners, they would all at once throw off their garb of abolitionism, and then, they too, must have slaves.  Perhaps they thought that a change of location justified a change of opinion; or, it may be, that they reasoned thus:  poor creatures, they are in bondage, and why should they not as well belong to us as to any one else?  We can treat them as well as any one.  The Southern slaves, however, tell a different tale.  They say that Northern men have no business with slaves, for the reason, that they are very hard masters.  The negroes of the South have as little sympathy for the Yankees, as their pro-slavery masters.