If slavery is "a good, a great good"

If slavery is “a good, a great good,” how strange the infatuation of these poor negroes, which led them to prefer death to the blessings of their former happy condition of bondage! And if slavery is “a good, a great good,” how beautifully its benign influence on the temper and moral character is illustrated, in the tender force with which the pursuers of those blinded fugitives sought to win them back to the pleasant paths of servitude!
~ The Plaindealer (February 25, 1837)