So they fatten the accursed system
out of their own bodies and souls." Such is a fair specimen of this
man's frenzy; and there are multitudes all over the Free States who will
listen to such language and applaud it. But how cruel it is, how low and
wicked! I pray Heaven to deliver you from being an abolitionist in the
cast of your mind, your temper, and spirit. Nothing gives me such an
idea of the world of despair as when I read ultra anti-slavery speeches.
I see how the lost will hate God's mysterious providence, and revile it;
and how they will fight with each other, and pour out their furious
invective and sarcasm and vituperation, and scourge one another with
their fiery tongues, as they now do, when some one of the party appears
to falter. If there were not something truly good in connection with
slavery amid all its evils, I think such men would not oppose it.
Pray, who are these gentlemen, and who are their extremely zealous
anti-slavery friends of more respectable standing, that they should have
such immense instalments of sympathy and pity for the "poor slave"?
Their neighbors are as susceptible as they to every form of human
sorrow; they know as much, their judgments are as sound, their motives
are as good as theirs.
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