A system which makes Uncle Toms out of African savages is not an unmixed evil." "But," said he, "it makes Legrees also." "I beg your pardon, Sir," said I, "it does not make Legrees.

There are as many Legrees at the North as at the South, especially if we include all the very particular 'friends of the slave.' Legree would be Legree in Wall Street, or Fifth Avenue; Uncle Tom would not be Uncle Tom in the wilds of Africa." "And so," said he, "it is right to fit out ships, burn villages in Africa, steal the flying people, bestow them in slave-ships, and sell them into hopeless bondage!" "So you all love to reason," said I, "or seek to force that conclusion upon us.

No such thing.

If God overrules the evil doings of men, this is no reason for repeating the wrong.

I am insisting that slavery as it exists in the South has been a blessing to the African.