around to point at them the finger of scorn; thou sayest, ‘they persevere in this course till the whole community is thrown into an uproar; and assaults and even bloodshed ensue.’ But why, I should like to know, if these people are themselves _guiltless_ of the crimes alleged against the others? I cannot understand why they should be so angry, unless, like the Jews of old, they perceived that the parable had been spoken ‘_against them_.’ To my own mind, the exasperation of the North at the discussion of slavery is an undeniable proof of _her guilt_, a certain evidence of the necessity of her plucking the beam out of her own eye, _before_ she goes to the South to rebuke sin there. To thee, and to all who are continually crying out, ‘Why don’t you go to the South?’ I retort the question by asking, why don’t YOU go to the South? _We_ conscientiously believe that this work must be commenced _here_ at the North; this is an all-sufficient answer for US; but YOU, who are ‘as much anti-slavery as we are,’ and differ _only_ as to the modus operandi, believing that the South and _not_ the North ought to be the field of Anti-Slavery labors--YOU, I say, have no excuse to offer, and are bound to go there now. But there is another view to be taken of this subject. By all our printing and talking at the North, we _have actually reached the very heart of the disease at the South_. They acknowledge it themselves. Read the following confession in the Southern Literary Review. ‘There are _many good men even among us, who have begun to grow timid_. They think that what the virtuous and high-minded men of the North look upon as a crime and a plague-spot, _cannot_ be perfectly innocent or quite harmless in a slaveholding community.’ James Smylie, of Mississippi, a minister of the gospel, _so called_, tells us on the very first page of his essay, written to uphold the doctrines of Governor McDuffie, ‘that the abolition maxim, viz. that slavery is _in itself sinful_, had gained on and entwined itself among the _religious_ and _conscientious_ scruples of _many_ in the community, so far as to render them _unhappy_.’ I could quote other southern testimony to the same effect, but will pass on to another fact just published in the New England Spectator; a proposition from a minister in Missouri ‘to have separate organizations for slavery and anti-slavery professors,’ and indeed ‘all over the _slaveholding States_.’ Has our labor then been in vain in the Lord? Have we failed to rouse the slumbering consciences of the South?