Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.