ing a poetical friend near to translate for me, I venture
to render as follows:--

"Thus to the Boar replied the Rosemary:
O swine, depart! I do not breathe for thee."

In noticing the manner in which many Northern writers, some of them
amiable men, receive the candid views and statements of travellers and
visitors at the South, I have been made to think of a company of the
owls, such as you see in Audubon, listening to the reading of David's
one hundred and fourth Psalm, in which he describes nature. Not a smile
of satisfaction; on the contrary, if you

"Molest the ancient, solitary reign"

of prejudice in their minds against the South, they either mope, or make
a sad noise. With regard to others, are there any limits to their anger
and denunciations? You may, without difficulty, imagine how this
appears to the Southerner, who knows the truthfulness of the
representations which excite this passionate resentment, and how much
the character of the North for ordinary candor falls in his esteem, and
how little disposed he is to heed their admonitions, and how absurd
their demands upon his ecclesiastical bodies to suffer their
remonstrances, appear, together with their subsequent withdrawal of
fellowship for the reason publicly assigned; namely, that the South will
not let them admonish her "in the Lord." Indeed, whatever may be true of
slavery, the South looks on the great body of zealous anti-slavery
people as being in as false and unnatural a state of excitement as the
Massachusetts people were in the times of witchcraft. A great delusion
is over the minds of many at the North, like one of our eastern
sea-fogs. It always makes a Southerner merry, when listening, in New
York or Boston, for example, to a lecture, if the speaker concludes a
sentence with some allusion to "freedom," and the people clap and stamp.
That the blood should tingle in our veins at so slight a cause, makes
him think that we are certainly in need of something worthy of our great
excitability, and that we are thankful for small favors in that way. He
does not think less than we of liberty where an occasion makes that name
and idea appropriate; but that the condition of his slaves should
reconsecrate for us all the old battle-cries of freedom, seems to him
pitiably weak. It shows him how incompetent we are to deal with the
acknowledged evils of slavery; and there are those at the South who are
stirred up by us to take extreme views of an oppo