Excerpt from The Southern Spy, Or Curiosities of Negro Slavery in the South: Letters From a Southerner to a Northern Friend

The writer of these simple pages has prepared for publication a collection of letters on the subject of Slave Life in the South, which were originally addressed to David M. Clarkson, Esq., "Glenbrook, " Newburgh, N. Y. - a gentleman whose friendship is one among those in the North that he has greatly prized, and whose cultivated patriotism is of that broad and noble type that he has ever fervently admired. He ventures to place a few of these letters, in this bumble way, before the public. In case of the press, and particularly that of the South, giving these few pages a verdict of encouragement, he will venture further to submit to the public the entire collection of the Letters of "The Southern Spy."

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