[Footnote I: This state of things is fast changing. Church members at the south now defend slavery as right. This is a new thing.] [Footnote J: When your chimney has smoked as long as ours, it will, may be, need sweeping too.] [Footnote K: Had I known all about New York and Boston which recent examinations have developed, I should have answered very differently. The fact is, that we in America can no longer congratulate ourselves on not having a degraded and miserable class in our cities, and it will be seen to be necessary for us to arouse to the very same efforts which, have been so successfully making in England.] [Footnote L: This idea is beautifully wrought out by Mrs. Jamieson in her Characteristics of the Women of Shakspeare, to which, the author is indebted for the suggestion.] [Footnote M: James Russell Lowell's "Beaver Brook."] [Footnote N: The hymns beginning with, these lines, "If human, kindness meet return," and "Behold where, in a mortal form," are specimens.]