[PeaRidge]

She can answer your inquiry.

"Do you say that the people of the free states have nothing to do with it? The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South.

"There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in Northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South?

"Northern men, Northern mothers, Northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves."

Harriette Beecher Stowe

[Non-Sequitur]

Stowe as saying to the North that if they weren't part of the solution then they were part of the problem, a problem that the south was willing to fight to the death to defend.