"If Cowper had written in Alabama, instead of describing a state of slavery such as existed in the British possessions, and not, as in the South, mixed up with his every-day life; if the first face with which he had become familiar as a babe had been a black face, the face of his mother's 'slave' loving him, and nursing him, and he, in turn, had tended his old 'Mammy' in her decrepitude, his imagination would have contained some other pictures than those in the lines which you quote.

Had there been a Mrs.Cowper, I fancy she would have been like this lady; and perhaps we should have seen Mr.Cowper acting the kind part of this lady's husband toward a slave-mother and her babe, his 'property,' so called.

I lay awake here, last night, while you were writing, and thought it all over.

What were you writing about so long?
I wished that I had a pencil and paper near me.

Those English and French people who got rid of slavery as one gets rid of a bunion, know nothing about slavery mingled with our very life-blood.