As to bearing such violations of one's rights in silence under intimidation, there is no more power in intimidation to save a villain at the South from disgrace and abhorrence in his community, than at the North." "But he can evade prosecution under the statute," said Mr.North, "more easily at the South than here." "When you have served on the grand jury a few terms," said I, "you will be more charitable toward Southerners.

Human nature is the same everywhere.

It makes, where it does not find, occasion for sin.
"Now you will not understand, in all that I have said, that I am pleading for slavery, that I desire to have this abject race among us, that Southerners are purer and better than we.

We are both under sin.

We all have our temptations and trials; each form of society has its own kind of facilities for evil; but the grace of God and all the influences which bear on the formation and the preservation of character, are the same wherever Christianity prevails." "Well, after all," said he, "it must be a semi-barbarous state of society, where such a system is maintained." "I shall have to send you," said I, "to the 'Hotel des Incurables.' I think that your judgments are more than semi-barbarous.