[Aunt Phillis’s Cabin by Mary H. Eastman]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Phillis’s Cabin CHAPTER XXVI 58/119
This makes me fear his Abolitionist friends are not doing right by him; putting him up to shooting, and turning Spanish gentleman, and all sorts of vagaries; to say nothing of disobeying the laws of the country.
No one blames him, though, for escaping from a hard master; at least, I do not. It would be a grand thing to stand on the shore of a new country, and see before you, _free_, every slave and prisoner on the soil of the earth; to hear their Te Deum ascend to the listening heavens.
Methinks the sun would stand still, as it did of old, and earth would lift up her voice, and lead the song of her ransomed children; but, alas! this cannot be yet--the time is not come.
Oppression wears her crown in every clime, though it is sometimes hidden from the gaze of her subjects. George declares he knows more than his master; "he can read and write better;" but his logic is bad.
He thus discusses the indications of Providence.
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