rnish Spain with four thousand negroes annually
for thirty years.'

"'Poor human nature!' said the Judge. 'What should we all do, if we had
not the sins of others to repent of and bewail?'

"There was a strong friend of temperance in the company from a
north-western state. Travelling in the South for pleasure, some time
ago, he was immediately struck with the comparative absence of
intemperance among the slaves. On learning that the laws forbid the sale
of intoxicating drink to them, and thinking of four millions of people
in this land as delivered, in a great degree, from the curse of
drunkenness, he says that he exclaimed: 'Pretty well for the "sum of all
villanies." The class of people in the United States best defended
against drunkenness are the slaves!' Some admonished him that the
slaves did get liquor, and that white men ventured to tempt them. 'I
don't care for that,' said he; 'of course, there are exceptions; the
"sum of all villanies" is a Temperance Society!'

"A Northern gentleman, travelling through the South, said, 'As to the
feelings of the North respecting a possible insurrection, I am
satisfied, since visiting in different parts of the South, that a very
common apprehension with us, respecting your liability to trouble from
this source, is exaggerated by fancy.

"'We have a theoretical idea that you must be dwelling, as we commonly
hear it said, with a volcano under your feet. Very many regard your
slaves as a race of noble spirits, conscious of wrong, and burning with
suppressed indignation, which is ready to break out at every chance.
They think of you at the North as having guns and pistols and spears all
about you, ready for use at any moment. But when I spend a night at your
plantations, the owner and I the only white males, the wife and seven or
eight young children having us for their only defenders against the
seventy or hundred blacks, who are all about us in the quarters, the
idea of danger has really never occurred to me; because my knowledge of
the people has previously disarmed me of fear.'

"'Emissaries, white and black,' said a planter, 'can, make us trouble;
but my belief is that we could live here to the end of time with these
colored people, and be subject to fewer cases of insubordination by far
than your corporations at the North suffer from in strikes. Your people,
generally, have no proper idea of the black man's nature. God seems to
have given him docility and gentleness, th