In the old slave-owning times of the United States--happily now no more--there was much grievance to humanity; proud oppression upon the one side, with sad suffering on the other. It may be true, that the majority of the slave proprietors were humane men; that some of them were even philanthropic in their way, and inclined towards giving to the unholy institution a colour of _patriarchism_. This idea--delusive, as intended to delude--is old as slavery itself; at the same time, modern as Mormonism, where it has had its latest, and coarsest illustration. Though it cannot be denied, that slavery in the States was, comparatively, of a mild type, neither can it be questioned, that among American…
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