iends' and the slave-holders generally, it would appear, got
up little tableaux for her, to impose on her good-nature. Knowing the
times when she took her daily walks, they put the fattest and sleekest
black boy whom they could find, into a truckle-cart, and made two of the
sons of the 'most opulent' citizens race down hill with him. Slavery,
therefore, is not the bad thing she and we had supposed. The female
teacher of a school in the neighborhood of her daily walk was suborned,
most probably, by the 'opulent' ladies of the place, to practise another
pleasing trick. Two white girls and a black girl were made to practise
running with their arms interlocked, and one day, as our friend came in
sight, they were pushed out to astonish her with one instance of white
girls hugging a negro slave-child. No doubt our friend, on seeing these
three together, soliloquized as follows:--

"See Truth, Love, and Mercy in triumph descending,
All nature now glowing in Eden's first bloom."

The old negro, respectable and well off, was one of those rare
exceptions to surrounding degradation which you now and then see in
Southern cities. The poor slave in the cars, gentle, timid, quivering,
was the true exponent of slavery. Had our authoress filled her book with
such illustrations exclusively, she would have written more truthfully,
more for her reputation with the real 'friends of the slave,' and, we
confess, more in accordance with our taste."

A writer in a very respectable publication at the North, already
referred to, gave us several years ago a curious piece of criticism on
some publication which he regarded as too favorable to slavery. His
pages, some of them, were crowded with daggers, in the shape of
exclamation marks,--two, three, four, and, in one instance, five, at the
end of quotations from the book under review. It was he that made the
assertion about the "arsenic," as being "universally in the hands of the
slaves."

I shall now let him review my little stories. I quote many of his
words:--

"'To show the ignorance and simplicity of our travelling' lady, we give
the following,--and what will the North say to this new argument in
favor of slavery? namely, a truckle-cart! a black boy riding!! two white
boys giving him a ride!!! and three girls, one of them black! arm in
arm!! romping. 'It is not the fault of this writer, that she cannot
understand a principle;' 'she is a New England Orthodox,'--'and a fair
specimen of