I have visited the slave states of North America, and have witnessed atrocities perhaps less brutal, but not less heart-rending, than those you mention." "But do the laws recognize them ?" "Yes, tacitly; the testimony of the slaves themselves is not received as evidence." "Why do a people that call their county a refuge for the down-trodden nations of Europe suffer such abominations ?" "Well, according to themselves, it is entirely a question of the _almighty dollar_.

If there were no slaves, the swamps and morasses of the south could not be cultivated.

It has been found that the negro will dance, and sing, and starve, but he will not work in the fields when free.

Besides, they assert, that the slaves are generally well cared for, and that it is only a few detestable masters that beat them cruelly." "Then, at all events, dollars are preferred to humanity by the United States men, in spite of their vaunted emblems--liberty and equality." "Quite so.

In all matters of internal policy, the dollar reigns supreme." "Admitting," continued Frank, "that the evils of slavery may exist in a section of the American Union, and amongst the barbarous hordes of Russia, these evils are trifling in comparison with others that stain the annals of antiquity.