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Chapter 12:
Christian Fellowship
candid conversation with a slaveholder
Clay-eaters
a true Unionist
secret Organizations in the South
Washington and Randolph on slavery
Aunt Katy
religion and republicanism
proslavery Inexcusable in the North
a distinguished Abolitionist.
As the words of inspiration came to my ears, I, too, sank on my knees, and poured forth my soul at the mercy-seat.
I must have spoken rather loudly, for the next morning, this identical slave woman, w e depreciation of Southern land, brought to my mind the authority of the fathers of our Republic on the subject.
John Sinclair had written to Washington concerning the difference of the land in Pennsylvania from that of Virginia and Maryland.
Washington's answer was this:
Because there are in Pennsylvania laws for the gradual abolition of slavery, which neither Maryland nor Virginia has at present; but there is nothing more certain than that they must have, and at a period not remote.