They are as needful and useful in New England factories as on Southern plantations.

Free Negroes are not the only underlings in the world, Negro servants are not the only hirelings.

There are thousands of factory operatives, day laborers, domestic servants, mechanics, sewing women, clerks, apprentices, and such like, whose cry for justice against oppression goes up to heaven by day and by night.

"For which things' sake," in all lands, "the wrath of God is come upon the children of disobedience." Let us here recall some of these half-forgotten laws; they must do us all good.

I know they are needed in the South; I am persuaded that they are needed wherever there are masters and servants.
Having heard a great deal about the condition of the colored people in Louisiana, I decided that it would not be uninteresting to have an authentic statement of that condition by some person fully capable of furnishing the desired information.