14/20 You see, Cousin, I want justice done us. We are the more _obvious_ oppressors of the negro; but the unchristian prejudice of the north is an oppressor almost equally severe." "Well, Cousin, I know it is so," said Miss Ophelia,--"I know it was so with me, till I saw that it was my duty to overcome it; but, I trust I have overcome it; and I know there are many good people at the north, who in this matter need only to be _taught_ what their duty is, to do it. It would certainly be a greater self-denial to receive heathen among us, than to send missionaries to them; but I think we would do it." "_You_ would, I know," said St.Clare. "I'd like to see anything you wouldn't do, if you thought it your duty!" "Well, I'm not uncommonly good," said Miss Ophelia. |