not describe
the daily, hourly, ceaseless torture, endured by the heart that
is constantly trampled under the foot of arbitrary power. This is
a part of the horrors of slavery which, I believe, no one has
ever attempted to delineate. I wonder not at it; it mocks all
power of language. Who can describe the anguish of that mind
which feels itself impaled upon the iron of arbitrary power--its
living, writhing, helpless victim! every human susceptibility
tortured, its sympathies torn, and stung, and bleeding--always
feeling the death weapon in its heart, and yet not so deep as to
kill that humanity which is made the curse of its existence?

No one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding
community can have any idea of its abominations. It is a whited
sepulchre, full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Blessed
be God, the angel of truth has descended, and rolled away the
stone from the mouth of the sepulchre, and sits upon it. The
abominations so long hidden are now brought forth before all
Israel and the sun. Yes, the angel of truth sits upon this stone,
and it can never be rolled back again.

There is a spirit abroad in this country which will not consent
to barter principle for an unholy peace--a spirit which will not
hide God's eternal principles of right and wrong, but will stand
erect in the storm of human passion, prejudice, and interest,
holding forth the light of truth in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation; a spirit which will never slumber nor sleep
till man ceases to hold dominion over his fellow-creatures, and
the trump of universal liberty rings in every forest, and is
re-echoed by every mountain and rock.

"She who spoke in tones like these never lost one of her purely
feminine qualities. Graceful, gentle, retiring, taking upon herself
the lowliest duties as if she had been born to them, this woman, who
stood up that her light might shine on all, and reveal to them the
terrible atrocities of slavery, was like Jeremy Taylor's taper, which
cast ever a modest shadow round itself. She had a very lofty idea of
what a woman should be. 'Whatever it is morally right for a man to do,
it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human
rights. I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights; for in
Christ Jesus there is neither male nor