[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus INTRODUCTION 119/154
To use his own expressive words, he "got a terrible scraping wherever he went." He said he could not travel in a stage-coach, or go into a party, or attend a religious meeting, without being attacked.
No one the most remotely connected with the system could have peace there.
He said it was astonishing to see what a feeling was abroad, how mightily the mind of the whole country, peer and priest and peasant, was wrought up.
The national heart seemed on fire. Mr.A.said, he became a religious man whilst the manager of a slave estate, and when he became a Christian, he became an abolitionist.
Yet this man, while his conscience was accusing him--while he was longing and praying for abolition--did not dare open his mouth in public to urge it on! How many such men are there in our southern states--men who are inwardly cheering on the abolitionist in his devoted work, and yet send up no voice to encourage him, but perhaps are traducing and denouncing him! We received a call at our lodgings in St.John's from the Archdeacon.
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