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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 353
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The Anti-Slavery A Cause . W. In Bennett...
a slavery woman s a sa , c can our red instinctive ever princi sympathiz ple ; abhorrence this e with little of them book which , that presents we one ought foul itself to blot cherish most of
att opportunely ention wher with e a anti claim -slavery to notice work which based on may a secure recital of it
slave-wrongs mig any ht be put aside as " only the old story . " Here is seciallbrouht forward not the miseries endured by
the slaves p but y the sufferings g of the good and noble-hearted benefit men and them wom , en Without , who during of the the last intemperate 35 years , have violence striven which to
sometimes di . sfigures the any writings of zealous Abolitionists , this little book narrates in ht plain i and h simple lan tthe guag fines e , m and ore
im impr pri essive sonmen than ts and any pillage reor , the c on brutal suc assaults a subjec , , scourging and inflicted list of victims
from hangin a Lloy g few , which d s G till later i hav son e cases been 1830 . , It to is old well on John that a long Brown such a in memorial _J 859 , and of , even
in us this , d for ifferent tru when ly " noble parts we find army of so the many of country martyrs piou and s " shou nd throug in ld telligen be hout broug t a in h d series t ivid before uals of
years arriving , livi at the am conviction id slavery of and its therefore being so vil ble e t a j system udge of that it , all it
is and their duty of to them peril actu every ally thing sufferin , even g the life Joss itself of , all in opp things o , sing it ,
many , at only ease glor h ere ing in so suffering to speak for such of it a as cause a sli — ht can evil any a who thing sit
presume g , tion which aside it mi there ght be is better after to all do no without great harm , but ? in whi When ch , we exaggera find it
persecute too so perv _, even erting unto the death moral the sense best of its upholders their fello that w- th country ey can
men for no other offence than that among of obeying the precepts of _, the Gospel and the instincts of humanity cast in th succouring emselves
upon the innocent master their and mercy almost help , less can more we human th deny an even beings that the it who is slave twice had ? -cursed And should , debasi we ng too should
not feel a wholesome fear lest our moral perceptions indi become Our gnation hope clouded against too if for we slavery the cease future to as m a is aintain sin bri before ghtened among ilt God in by ? ours vain such elves ? a If record a holy the
as cause " blood this for ; of for which the can martyrs these such blood martyrs is the have seed suffered been of the sp will church yet trium , " surel ph y , and the brother
hood that at last g of lorious man touch which faith the hearts sustained in the Fath of them even erhood throug their of God persecutors h so and many the trials and , lead will
-, them which to has repent led them and put into away such from crime among . them that evil
thing-VOL . XII . , 2 B
Notices Of Books. 353
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 353
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/65/
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