We have now become pretty well acquainted with the sugar-growing part of Texas. The life of a planter who has a fair start in the world is one of the most independent imaginable. We here find the pleasures of fashionable life without its tyranny. I doubt, however, whether a person of Northern education could so far forget his home-bred notions and feelings as ever to be thoroughly Southern on the subject of slavery. We have seen none of 'the horrors' so often described, but on the other hand I have seen nothing to change my Northern opinions.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

Is there anything in which the people of this age and country differ more from those of other lands and former times than in this - their ability to preserve o…

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a …

Twenty-five years ago this Republic was bearing and wearing a triple chain of bondage. Long familiarity with traffic in the bodies and souls of men had paralyz…