spirit of rebellion which prompted her to curse the Author of her being for permitting such a violation of his revealed attributes of love and righteousness. She now made the slave's case her own, which she had never done before. With the indifference so common to us all she passed the subject by as one pertaining to some far off race which imposed no personal responsibility, without seeking to ascertain the measure of the nation's guilt, or the connection of each individual therewith. That proud Anglo-Saxon blood was humbled when confronted with the deeper religious trust of the African who could still praise God in the midst of clanking chains and bleeding wounds.
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