he last ten
years, failed to give her mite, which she divides between the house of
the "Foreign Missions," and the "Tract Society."

A nice, smooth-faced man, somewhat clerically dressed, straight and
portly of person, and most unexceptionable in his morals, is Mr. Hadger.
A smile of Christian resignation and brotherly love happily ornaments
his countenance; and then, there is something venerable about his
nicely-combed gray whiskers, his white cravat, his snowy hair, his mild
brown eyes, and his pleasing voice. One is almost constrained to receive
him as the ideal of virtue absolved in sackcloth and ashes. As an
evidence of our generosity, we regard him an excellent Christian, whose
life hath been purified with an immense traffic in human----(perhaps
some good friend will crack our skull for saying it).

In truth (though we never could find a solution in the Bible for it), as
the traffic in human property increased Mr. Hadger's riches, so also did
it in a corresponding ratio increase his piety. There is, indeed, a
singular connection existing between piety and slavery; but to analyze
it properly requires the mind of a philosopher, so strange is the
blending.

Brother Hadger takes a sup of ice-water, and commences reading Sister
Slocum's letter, which runs thus:

"NEW YORK, May --, 1850.
"DEAR BROTHER HADGER:

"Justice and Mercy is the motto of the cause we have lent our hands and
hearts to promote. Only yesterday we had a gathering of kind spirits at
the Mission House in Centre street, where, thank God, all was peace and
love. We had, too, an anxious gathering at the 'Tract Society's rooms.'
There it was not so much peace and love as could have been desired.
Brother Bight seemed earnest, but said many unwise things; and Brother
Scratch let out some very unwise indiscretions which you will find in
the reports I send. There was some excitement, and something said about
what we got from the South not being of God's chosen earnings. And there
was something more let off by our indiscreet Brothers against the
getting up of the tracts. But we had a majority, and voted down our
indiscreet Brothers, inasmuch as it was shown to be necessary not to
offend our good friends in the South. Not to give offence to a Brother
is good in the sight of the Lord, and this Brother Primrose argued in a
most Christian speech of four long hours or more, and which had the
effect of convincing every one how necessary it was to free the _t