He thinks that if one wishes to be excited with compassion at the sorrows and woes of men, a short walk will bring him to certain abodes such as no Southern slave would be allowed by any human master to inhabit.

If he would benefit men as a class, our own sailors need all his philanthropy.

But the good anti-slavery brother is possessed with the idea that the Southern slave is the impersonation of injustice and misery, and that those who stand in the relation of masters are guilty of crimes, daily, which ought to shut them out of the Church.
"I have often thought that the most appropriate prayers in our public assemblies, with regard to slavery, would be petitions against Northern ignorance and passion with respect to Southern Christians.

It is we who most need to be prayed for.

When I think of those assemblies of Christians of all denominations in the South, with a clergy at their head who have no superiors in the world, and then hear a Northern preacher indicting them before God in his prayers, what shall I say?
The verdict of a coroner's inquest, if it were held over some of his hearers at such a time, might almost be, Died of disgust." "Now I desire to know," said Mr.North, "if we are never to pray in public about slavery?
Is it not the great subject before the country, and are not all our interests in Church and State deeply involved in it ?" "While we believe," said I, "that holding slaves is a sin, I take the ground that praying for the Southerners is a false impeachment.