G.--"Sir, I am a poor man; and were I ever so opulent, it would be necessary, on your part, to make out a clear title to the services of the slave before I could conscientiously make a bargain." M--"Well, sir, I can prove from the Bible that slavery is right." G.--"Ah! that is a precious book--the rule of conduct. I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression. However, sir, I should be glad to hear your text." M. (hesitatingly)--"Ham--Noah's curse, you know." G. (hastily)--"Oh, sir, you build on a very slender foundation. Granting even--what remains to be proved--that the Africans are the descendants of Ham, Noah's curse was a _prediction_ of future servitude, and not an injunction to oppress. Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?" M. (excitedly)--"Why, sir, do you really think that the slaves are beings like ourselves?--that is, I mean do you believe that they possess the same faculties and capacities as the whites?" G. (energetically)--"Certainly, sir, I do not know that there is any moral or intellectual quality in the curl of the hair, or the color of the skin. I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his. Sir, it is not a black face that I detest, but a black heart--and I find it very often under a white skin." M. (derisively)--"Well, sir, how should you like to see a black man President of the United States?" G. (severely)--"As to that, sir, I am a true Republican, and bow to the will of the majority. If the people prefer a black President, I should cheerfully submit; and if he be qualified for the station, may peradventure give him my vote." M. (triumphantly)--"How should you like to have a black man marry your daughter?" G. (making a home thrust and an end of the dialogue)--"I am not married--I have no daughter. Sir, I am not familiar with _your_ practices; but allow me to say, that slaveholders generally should be the last persons to affect fastidiousness on that point; for they seem to be enamored with _amalgamation_."