Their clergy, their husbands, their young men, if they are no better, are no worse than we.
But there is nothing in which the self-righteousness created by anti-slavery views and feelings is more conspicuous than in the way in which the South is judged and condemned by us with regard to this one sin.

Had the pulpits of the South afforded such dreadful instances of frailty, for the last ten or fifteen years, as we have had at the North, what confirmation would we have found for our invectives against the corrupting and 'barbarous' influence of slavery! "How the morbid fancy of a Northerner loves to gloat over occasional instances of violence at the South, and is never employed in depicting scenes of betrayal and cruelty which our policemen in large cities could recount by scores." "I saw," said Mr.North, "in a recent paper, that a slave in Washington County, N.C., was hanged by the sheriff in the presence of three thousand spectators, for the murder of a white man, whom he shot with a pistol because he suspected him of undue familiarity with the wife of the black man.

Poor fellow! no doubt he swung for it because he was a slave.

He must let his marriage rights be invaded by the whites, and bear it in silence, or die." Said I, "What a perfect specimen of Northern anti-slavery feeling and logic have we in what you now say.

If a man, on suspicion of you, takes the law into his hands and shoots you with a pistol, does he not deserve to die?
He does, if he is a white man; perhaps, if he be a slave, that excuses him! Even where a man is known to be guilty of the crime referred to, and the husband shoots him, he is apt to have a narrow escape from being punished.