The Planter Or Thirteen Years in the South By a Northern Man
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" " I think so. And if so, living in harmony and love, as these people seem to, and in such delightful circum- stances, in this genial and lovely climate, if any human condition may be happy, what can interfere with the hap- piness of these people ?" " Not their condition as slaves, I should think, doctor. " '' No, indeed ; for if not slaves, they would have no 02 DUAYTU. N l-LAM). such paradise of a home — a homo, such as any mau or woman ought to be ashamed not to be happy in. " " You arc qui...te right, doctor; and how finely is here illustrated the proposition of our own great Shakspeare, communicating the blessings of a lowly station : ' 'Tis better to be I0WI3' born, And range witli humble lives in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. ' ''Yes. 'Tis better; and very graphically, as well as beautifully, it is told by the inimitable poet. For the favored individual 'tis no question better. But to carry on the great scheme of the world's Divine Government, that, in the good time of the Great lluler, man may again walk uprightly, some viust ' Be perk'd up in glistering grief/ and some must wear (joldcn, and many more must wear iron sorrows.
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