"'After service the good brother said, "I suppose you referred in your
prayer to my praying against the South, as you call it. Well," said he,
confidentially, "the truth is, some of our people make this thing their
religion, and they will not abide a man who does not pray against
slavery." Some gentlemen, with their ladies, stopped to speak with me.
One shook me by the hand most cordially. "We are glad to see our good
Southern brethren," said he; "thankful to hear you preach so, and pray
so, too," said he, with an additional shake and a significant look,
while the rest were equally cordial with their assent. One of the
gentlemen took me home with him. "This is most of it politics," said he,
"and newspaper trade, this anti-slavery feeling. The people generally
are not fanatics; they are kind and humane, and their sensibilities are
touched by tales of distress."--"Especially Southern," said I. "Last eve
I read in your papers four outrages which happened within fifteen miles
of this city, and two in your city, which equalled, to say the least,
in barbarity anything that ever comes to my knowledge among our people."
"'The next Sabbath, as I have since learned, my good brother was very
comprehensive, discriminating, and impartial in his supplications.
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