She said that in the North she was not
an abolitionist, but on coming to the South and finding things so
different from that which her fancy had pictured, she had concluded to
be very charitable toward the most of her Northern friends who she said
were no more in the dark than she herself had been all her days, from
reading newspapers and tales which had concealed one whole side of
slavery from the view of Northern people. She added that she preferred
life at the North without the blacks, but had found more disinterested
benevolence toward them in one year at the South than she had charity to
believe existed in the hearts of all the good people at the North toward
them, counting in even the professional benevolence of the 'friends of
the slave.'
"After refreshments, the pastor was called upon to read the Scriptures,
and to offer prayer. He read the fifteenth chapter of Revelation. Never
can I forget the impression which one of the verses in that chapter made
upon me, in connection with some of the thoughts awakened by our
conversation about the sovereignty of God as displayed in his dark and
awful dispensations towards races, nations, and men: 'And the seven
angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure
and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
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