No! No! the taunts of a New England woman will induce no abolitionist to cease his rebuke of _northern slaveholders_ and apologists for slavery. Southerners see the wisdom of _this_, if _thou_ canst not; and over against thy opinion, I will place that of a Louisiana planter, who, whilst on a visit to his relatives at Uxbridge, Mass. this summer, unhesitatingly admitted that the _North was the right place to begin Anti-Slavery efforts_. Had I not been convinced of this before, surely thy book would have been all-sufficient to satisfy me of it; for a more subtle defence of the slaveholder’s right to property in his helpless victims, I never saw. It is just such a defence as the hidden enemies of Liberty will rejoice to see, because, like thyself, they earnestly desire to ‘avoid the _appearance of evil_;’ they are as much opposed to slavery as we are, only they are as much opposed to Anti-Slavery as the slaveholders themselves. Is there any middle path in this reformation? Or may we not fairly conclude, that he or _she_ that is not for the slave, in deed and in truth, is _against_ him, no matter how specious their professions of pity for his condition? In haste, I remain thy friend, A. E. GRIMKÉ. [1] And in ‘Laird’s Expedition to Africa, &c.’ a work recently published in England, this assertion of the slave trader is fully sustained. Laird relates that ‘there is _proof_ of the horrid fact, that several of the wretches engaged in this traffic, when hotly pursued, consigned _whole cargoes_ to the deep.’ He then goes on to state several such instances, from which I select the following: ‘In 1833, the Black Joke and Fair Rosamond fell in with the Hercule and Regule, two slave vessels off the Bonny River. On perceiving the cruisers, they attempted to regain the port, and pitched overboard upwards of 500 human beings, chained together, before they were captured; from the abundance of sharks in the river, their track was literally a blood-stained one. The slaver not only does this, but _glories in it_: the first words uttered by the captain of the Maria Isabelle, seized by captain Rose, were, ‘that if he had seen the man of war in chase an hour sooner, he would have thrown _every_ slave in his vessel overboard, as _he was fully insured_.’ LETTER IV. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH. DANVERS, Mass., _7th mo., 1837_.