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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Reply of Mrs. Child. (search)
o say: I felt there could be for me no rest in the midst of such outrages and pollutions. Yet I saw nothing of slavery in its most vulgar and repulsive forms. I saw it in the city, among the fashionable and the honorable, where it was garnished by refinement and decked out for show. It is my deep, solemn, deliberate conviction, that this is a cause worth dying for. I say so from what I have seen, and heard, and known, in a land of slavery, whereon rest the darkness of Egypt and the sin of Sodom. I once asked Miss Angelina if she thought abolitionists exaggerated the horrors of slavery. She replied, with earnest emphasis: They cannot be exaggerated. It is impossible for imagination to go beyond the facts. To a lady who observed that the time had not yet come for agitating the subject, she answered: I apprehend if thou wert a slave, toiling in the fields of Carolina, thou wouldst think the time had fully come. Mr. Thome of Kentucky, in the course of his eloquent lectures on t