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The Sable Cloud

CHAPTER VII
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But if I mix up with it wrathful opposition to the sin, so called, or the unrighteousness of holding property in man, it has no countenance in the Bible.

If I speak of it publicly, as a system fraught with evil, I must discriminate; or they whom I would influence, knowing that I am mistaken, will regard me as an infatuated enemy, who will effect more injury than I can repair.

As to Mr.Jefferson's testimony, there are as good and conscientious men at the South in our day as Thomas Jefferson.

Mr.Calhoun was as worthy a witness in all respects." "Now tell us," said Mrs.North, "your sober convictions, apart from this Northern controversy, about that twenty-first chapter of Exodus, where God directs that slaves, in certain cases, shall be slaves forever; and, moreover, in certain cases, that slave husbands may have their wives and children withheld from them, and the husbands leave them forever.

How do you reconcile this with the justice and goodness of God ?" I said to her, "To make the case fully appear, before we converse upon it, hear this passage, Leviticus XXV.


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