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Excerpt from What Remains of Slavery and the Slave Trade: The Freedman and Africa; Papers and Addresses at the Twenty-Ninth Anniversary of the American Missionary Association With Facts and Statistics
Have no such work to do now as was called for in England, When, even of Mr. Pitt, it could' be truly said that he appeared to have but little knowledge of the evils of slavery; no such work as men were called to do in this country, when chained gangs of bondmen were driven by the lash in open day through the streets of our national capital. We have other causes-for shame as we think of that city, but no longer this cause. For no longer there, or anywhere in this broad land, can one look into the face of his brother and say, You are my property. Through smoke and blood and the agonies of war we have come to the end of all that. Nevertheless, else where there are still servitude and suf feting; and we have somewhat to do in view of the enslavement of human be ings in other lands. _in reply to ques tions that were nobly asked years ago, we say that humanity is not a local feeling; that Christian sympathy does not stop at a frontier, and that liberty is something to us, though cloven down at a distance.
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