f the family, led by curiosity, steal out into the
filthy kitchen, the child is speedily called back, thinking
itself happy if it escape an angry rebuke. Why is this? The
dread of moral contamination. Most excellent reason; but it
reveals a horrid picture. THE SLAVE CUT OFF FROM ALL
COMMUNITY OF FEELING WITH THEIR MASTER, ROAM OVER THE VILLAGE
STREETS, SHOCKING THE EAR WITH THEIR VULGAR JESTINGS, AND
VOLUPTUOUS SONGS, OR OPENING THEIR KITCHENS TO THE RECEPTION
OF THE NEIGHBORING BLACKS, THEY PASS THE EVENING IN GAMBLING,
DANCING, DRINKING, AND THE MOST OBSCENE CONVERSATION, KEPT UP
UNTIL THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THEN CROWN THE SCENE WITH
INDISCRIMINATE DEBAUCHERY. WHERE DO THESE THINGS OCCUR? IN
THE KITCHENS OF CHURCH MEMBERS AND ELDERS!

I shall now take the liberty of reading two letters from highly
respectable gentlemen in the South, to friends in New England. The
first is from a clergyman in North Carolina, to one of the Professors
in Bowdoin College, Maine.

"You remember that when I was with you last summer, I was
much opposed to the Anti-Slavery Society, and contended that
the colonization scheme was a full, and the only remedy, for
the evils of slavery, and that I made a sort of talk before
the students on the subject of slavery. It was a poor talk,
for it was a miserable theme. I do not think what I said had
any effect against the Anti-Slavery people, or at all
strengthened the cause of the Colonization Society. Be this
as it may, I feel it a duty I owe both to myself and to the
friends I have with you, to say, that my views and feelings,
which were then wavering, have since, after mature
deliberation and much prayer, been entirely changed, and that
I am now a strong Anti-Slavery man. Yes, after mature
reflection, I am the sworn enemy of slavery in all its forms,
with all its evils. Henceforth it is a part of my religion to
oppose slavery. I am greatly surprised, that I should in any
form have been the apologist of a system, so full of deadly
poison to all holiness and benevolence as slavery, the
concocted essence of fraud, selfishness, and cold-hearted
tyranny, and the fruitful parent of unnumbered evils, both to
the oppressor and the oppressed, the one thousandth part of
which has never been brought to light.

"Do you ask, why this change, after residing in a slave