Even if he could legally claim his freedom at his majority, circumstances might be such that all would say he was under moral obligations to remain with me.

If I abuse him, he must consider before God how far it is his duty to bear affliction, and submit to oppression.

There are cases in which none would condemn him, should he escape.

But the rule is to "abide." He has not, under all the circumstances of our relation to each other, a right to walk off at pleasure.' "The company agreed in this, though the physician made no remark.

We conversed further on the antipathy of the Free States to a large increase among them of the colored population, ungrateful and perfidious Kansas, even, withholding civil and political equality from them; their condition in Canada; their relation to the whites in every state where they have gone to reside; and we concluded that the South was the best home for the black man,--that home to become better and better in proportion as the law of Christian benevolence prevailed.