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strong with them, than with their more fortunate white brethren?
Who can question the horrible tyranny under which they suffer, after reading The Tender Mercies of a Slaveholder, and the suicide of Romaine?
Friend Hopper labored zealously for many, many years; and thousands have applied their best energies of head and heart to the same great work; yet the slave-power in this country is as strong as ever—nay, stronger.
Its car rolls on in triumph, and priests and politicians outdo each other in zeal to draw it along, over its prostrate victims.
But, lo!
from under its crushing wheels, up rises the bleeding spectre of Uncle Tom, and all the world turns to look at him!
Verily, the slave-power is strong; but God and truth are stronger.
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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