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after an approving quotation, of an exceeding fresh and novel character, 

 from the old sage of Bolt Court, triumphantly proves that two blacks 

 do, after all, make a white ! 



" I have now taken leave of the Southern States. Louisville and Cincinnati 

 are places in which I believe Mrs. Stowe once resided ; and I quote au opinion 

 she advances in her last work which proves her entire ignorance of negro consti- 

 tution and habits. She asserts that Canada is the best locality ' to develope the 

 energies of the black race.' Before saying this it would have been well if she 

 had studied the conditions of the free uegroes in Canada. The very climate 

 itself is utterly unsuited for them. Mrs. Stowe quotes as mistaken and absurd 

 the sensible remarks in Boswell's life of Johnson respecting negro slavery, which 

 I must requote as wise and true : ' To abolish a status which in all ages God has 

 sanctioned and man has continued would not only be robbing a numerous class of 

 our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savage, a 

 portion of whom it saves from more bondage in their own country, and introduces 

 into a much happier state of life, especially when their passage to the West 

 Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish the trade 

 would be " ' to shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' " Ami I must add this : the 

 opinions I have heard from intelligent slaves coincide with those here quoted. 

 Because some slave manacles were seen by Clarkson in a Liverpool shop, he de- 

 cided at once upon the inhumanity of slavery, — so says Mrs. Stowe. Tyrannical 

 men and women in Great Britain have actually starved apprentices to death. Is 

 apprenticeship therefore, murder? I trust no English woman can be found will- 

 ing to bring such an accusation against her people. Let us imagine two 

 brothers in this country engaged in trade: one buys a plantation with two hun- 

 dred negroes to raise cotton in the Mississippi, the other sets up a mill to spin 

 cotton at Cincinnati. Trade is bad with the elder, he must raise or buy corn 

 and clothes to feed and elothe his labourers. Trade is tight with the other, — he 

 dismisses his work-people, who may starve or perish, and there is no law which 

 can make him responsible for their sufferings. I will conclude this subject with 

 one more anecdote, for the truth of which I can vouch. 



" A Southern lady and gentleman brought a mulatto slave to Cincinnati, who 

 there fell in with some abolitionists and was imbued with a feeling of discontent. 

 Her master and mistress observing this, proceeded to New York, where they told 

 the girl that they did not wish to retain a servant against her will, and giving her 

 twenty dollars, they added : take this money and your freedom. The girl took 

 it, and went out. She entered a theatre, and was told she must go to the en- 

 trance for colored people. In Church she is ordered to sit with the blacks. 

 Trving for a place in an omnibus, the driver says it is no place for her. She 

 hurried back to her mistress to return the money, and entreated she might be 

 taken or sent back to that South where Hack people are free 1" 



There are omnibuses, theatres, and churches too, it would seem, 

 nearer home, whose directors would be of the same opinion in refer- 

 ence to the Cincinnati mullato : that there was no place for her. So, 

 at least we imagine may be inferred from another little bit of 

 portraiture from the fair pencil we have already exhibited touching 

 off our Canadian notables, and which may serve as a counterpart to 



