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day is the evil thereof". It
is true but that good book never
takes a one sided view of anything
for we read in it also, that "a
wise man, foreseeth the evil, &
hideth himself, & the fool passeth on
& is punished{quote all underlined}". Talk of slavery
those mad-caps at the North don't
understand the thing at all. We
hold the negroes & they hold us.
They are at the head of the ladder.
They furnish the yoke & we the
necks. My own is getting sore, it
is the same with those of my
neighbors, in Church & State. We
think it safe to avail of the sensi-
bility still left. There is such a
thing as induration. We are afraid
of it. But besides we are afraid
of the Northern domination in our
schools & pulpits at the South, --
"these northern men with Southern
principles." We are afraid of
this influence of northern Seminaries, &
Colleges on the minds of Southern youth.
We revolt at the humiliation