e with me,
said,--
"Disgusting! There, madam, you have one of the great evils of
slavery,--irresponsible power in the hands of men who are not fit to be
intrusted with authority over others. No man, I sometimes think, ought
to be allowed to hold slaves till he has submitted to examination as to
character, or brings certificates of a good disposition. I know that
man. His father was from ---- [a New England State.] He is what we call
a torn-down character. His neighbors all"--but the signal was given for
starting, and the conversation was broken off.
My first thought was, How glad I would be to set that man free from such
bondage! The next thought was, Where would I send him to be free from
"the power of the dog?" I had been reading, in a Boston paper, a lecture
delivered in Boston, by a distinguished "friend of the slave," against
Mr. Webster and Mr. Choate, before an "immense audience." I thought, How
much better it is to be a Christian slave, even to this master, than to
sit in the seat of the scornful, applauding such a lecture!
The poor slave was having his probation and discipline, as we all have
ours, and he was suffering, as we all do in our turns, from an impudent
tongue. Little did he think that a fellow-creature, looking at him at
that moment, was reminded, by his meekness under insult, of Him, our
example, who, under such provocation, opened not his mouth, and that I
was made to remember, as I stood there and received instruction from
him, that the best alleviation and cure of anguished sensibility under
ill-treatment is in this same silence, and in thoughts of Jesus.
After the cars had started, I took my Bible from my carpet-bag, and read
these passages: "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not
only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is
thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering
wrongfully." Then this is enforced by the example of our incarnate God
and Saviour, who is held up to Christian slaves a
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.