Except in some insensibility to animal pain, I never knew of an act in my regiment which I should call brutal.

In reading Kay's "Condition of the English Peasantry" I was constantly struck with the unlikeness of my men to those therein described.

This could not proceed from my prejudices as an abolitionist, for they would have led me the other way, and indeed I had once written a little essay to show the brutalizing influences of slavery.

I learned to think that we abolitionists had underrated the suffering produced by slavery among the negroes, but had overrated the demoralization.

Or rather, we did not know how the religious temperament of the negroes had checked the demoralization.