truths--would to God that it had fallen to the lot of some one else to
record them.

I have endeavored, in the preceding pages, to show that the condition
of the slaves of the South; so far from being improved; is made worse
by emancipation under existing circumstances. Free negroes meet with
but little sympathy in the South, and with still less in the North. A
residence of a few years in the slave and also in the free States,
will satisfy anyone of the truth of this remark. Free negroes are more
odious to Northern than to Southern people. In all the varied and
multifarious relations of social life, they are told to stand aside.
Under no circumstances, social, civil or religious, can the white man
and the African, meet on terms of equality and reciprocity. They are
debarred from social intercourse with the whites. They are not
suffered to become, so far as I know, members of any secret society,
association or organization, whatever. Beside the white man at the
hospitable board, they cannot, they dare not sit; and to a seat in the
white man's parlor, and social converse, they dare not aspire. The
carpet of the white man was not spread for them, and around his
cheerful hearth, before his crackling fire, there is no place for
them. They are not suffered to participate in any of the festivities
or amusements of their more highly favored white brethren. If they are
admitted into the same crowd, they must not commingle with the whites;
they are required to stand to one side. If they are admitted into the
same house, a separate apartment is assigned to them, and if to the
same table, they are taught to wait in patience until the white man is
satiated; and then to be content with the fragments and crumbs. If
they enter the same church, a separate bench, or a separate apartment
in the church is allotted to them; for beside the white man they dare
not sit, while engaged in devotional exercises. The black man's