When we are rid of this error, we do not feel their need of being prayed for any more than 'all men,' for whom Paul says, 'I will that men pray everywhere,'-- 'lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting.' Our 'hands' must be 'holy' when we lift them up for 'all men,' including Southerners; there must be no 'wrath' in our prayers,--which I am sorry to say is too easily discerned in prayers against the South; and there must be no 'doubting' in the petitioners whether their feelings and motives are right before God.

There is as much in the relation of officers and crews in our merchant vessels, to say the least, to enlist the prayers of ministers, as in slavery.

But this relates to ourselves, and has not the enchantment of a distant sin.
"You must bring yourself to believe, Mr.North, that Southern hearts are in general as humane and cultivated as ours.

This, it is true, is a great demand upon a Northerner." "But oh," said he, (we happening to be alone just then,) "the cruelty of compelling virtuous people, members of Churches, to commit sin, under pain of being sold." "Mr.North," said I, "how do you dare to open your lips on that subject,--you, with myself, a member of a denomination in which men, eminent in our pulpits, have--so many of them of late years--fallen.

One would think that we would never cast a stone at the South on that subject.
"Some among us seem to think that the power and the opportunity to commit sin must necessarily be followed by criminal indulgence.