12/27 This woman does not pause there--no. She comes here to Washington, at precisely the time of our final compromise, when all is peaceful, even slumberous,--and she preaches the crusade of fire and sword. My dear friend, if you seek a prophet, here is one; and if you want leadership in your dogma of no slavery north of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes, here is prophet and leader in one!--And, believe me, one with arguments which make her dangerous to one man, two men, or any collection of men." The other pondered. "I have never seen the lady," he remarked, at length. "Is she acquainted among the abolitionists of the North ?" "No. |