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April/54

or free. Such is the baneful
effect of Slavery upon labor.

The free blacks who receive
wages, expect to do no more
work than do the Slaves,
Slave labor is the Standard -
& it need but a glance at
Southern life, to enable an
Abolitionist to understand, why
it is that the Northern man
is a more exacting Slave master
than is a Southern one - he
requires of the Slave an amount
of labor equal to that he has
been accustomed to get from
the well paid northern free laborers,
vain requisition that,

April 1st Baltimore.

Retired early
last night & had most an ex-
cellent sleep all alone.

Dr. Snodgrass called this A. M. &
accompanied me to engage the
Temple on North Gay Street, & get a
notice inserted in the 8 Baltimore
papers. The "Sun" Office looks
stately like a rich northern one.

In the Office of the Clipper Times is
established a reading room of

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Southern Papers mostly.

The Dr. is very kind indeed,
we went to the Depot, but
the train had been in some
minutes. I feared Mrs. R. was
on board & would make a
fruitless search for me. I did
not as agreed leave my plan
of stopping with Mrs. Snodgrass -

This noon the table waiters
seemed to be missing, Mrs.
Waters called John, Sarah -
Henrietta, but none came,
Hena came but did not
seem inclined to obey, & it
was only after a very decided
command that she did the
work desired.

Mrs. Rose arrived at half
past five, this P.M. rained
hard. She gave a very flatter-
ing account of the meeting
of the Columbian Tire Com
pany, before which she spoke
last evening, had a full house
notwithstanding the rain, Mrs.
Pendleton has indeed done a
glorious working, in lifting up
that neglected class & causing

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