Yet some striking exceptions there are among us, from the fact that the negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white." "Well," said Miss Ophelia, "how came you to give up your plantation life ?" "Well, we jogged on together some time, till Alfred saw plainly that I was no planter.

He thought it absurd, after he had reformed, and altered, and improved everywhere, to suit my notions, that I still remained unsatisfied.

The fact was, it was, after all, the THING that I hated--the using these men and women, the perpetuation of all this ignorance, brutality and vice,--just to make money for me! "Besides, I was always interfering in the details.

Being myself one of the laziest of mortals, I had altogether too much fellow-feeling for the lazy; and when poor, shiftless dogs put stones at the bottom of their cotton-baskets to make them weigh heavier, or filled their sacks with dirt, with cotton at the top, it seemed so exactly like what I should do if I were they, I couldn't and wouldn't have them flogged for it.

Well, of course, there was an end of plantation discipline; and Alf and I came to about the same point that I and my respected father did, years before.