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ACCOMPLICES. 399
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Made That Terrible Fine Ladies History A...
we say in this Eng for my d testimony are apt to as forget an eye wh -witness at slavery , hav is , there lived fore nin I
th and wee at k that s the in in N s titution w Orleans and is _, Christian d and egrading many virtues alik mon e ths to are master in incompatible the s slave and States slaves with , ,
its existence progress . mina Now te have this we terrible in Eng ou land t done on hu all m that an bein we can s ? do Are to w exter e not
lices in rage ? g accompmany ways ask ed Wh a p y ar s e y t , well such -bred a dec Eng ided lish partiz lady , w an of the I met South travell ? " ing I
abroad a few months ago . who Miss are JO Southern . u Oh ers , because didn't I know know so Mrs many . Y . p at Home sant ? " ple
; you do Yes thin , and k slavery she was a h merry t ?" elegant little creature ; but why
Miss you I ) . " Oh , you g see I have never met any Northerners I liked at alland I do so like the real Southerners of family .
they " And are ch so arming because , !" liked pretty Mrs . Y . and five or six ,
other people from the you South , you uphold that slavery is right ?" Miss D . _"Wh ! ou see it can't be so bad ; and I
have not thought much yesy about it , and I know I hate the aboli Am tionis usin ts , and melan I do admire cholt Ston o hear ewall Jackson intelligent !" being 3 35
years of age g , born with every y advantage of influence , money , they and position have dar , k er holdin skins g that tend four erer millio nature ns s of than peop s ome , beca of us us
, perhaps did shoul not d , be think that property her th op did inion like in s sheep d the o no least t and matt but cattle er , I and ! 1 You her am will sure inions s she ay ,
and your opinion ey s , and all our op ; inions do say signif op y . For , hold whateyer and we there do , is nothing do not m ore , depends humiliating on what than op the inion stup s w e
indifference own inion , influence is not of . felt women The as it , importance and ht the to small be of it the value is formation forgotten they set how of on ri close their ght
upon op the heels of opinion oug , action ; treads . Miss D . did not believe her opinions wrong , and yet what actions they lead to !
stat The e of women mind of which Spain could laughed so to stifle see all heretics woman burn l , and ity was the
y p produced degrade a by character false op or inion produce . It greater seems misery not even ! vice can so
In some ways , too , from their usual position of living a little
women apart , and should withdrawn find it from easier the to active form wise business judgments of the . worl Of d a ,
man intensely occupied in active life , one may predict his
Accomplices. 399
ACCOMPLICES . 399
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/39/
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