r a walk on its beaches, to see the
tunnellings of the sea in the rocks, and the spouting-horns. But what a
relief it is to be in a section where the Christian religion is so
generally accepted, and the swarms of errorists and sectarians which
abound elsewhere are comparatively unknown. Here, the lowest class, in
which error would be prolific, is under instruction, to a great degree.
I see now why it is that false views about slavery are a great stimulant
to heretical views and feelings;--they are a convenient substitute for
the love and zeal which true Christianity supplies. The human mind,
where it is accustomed to act freely, must be impelled by some
master-passion; and when true religion does not supply it, error stands
ready to satisfy the demand.
On the whole, I am persuaded that our Northern people behave full as
well under the anti-slavery excitement as Southerners would if their
consciences were perverted like ours, and we were the objects of their
opposition. I think that a change will come over us. At the North, you
have heard the wind, at midnight, after a warm rain, in winter, haul out
to the north-west, and you know what a piping time we then have of it,
and how the clear cold air, the next morning, and the bright sun, excite
and cheer us. There has been with us for a long time at the North, in
our political and religious atmosphere, a warm, foggy, unwholesome
drizzle of weak, fanatical feeling, with now and then gusts of wind and
scud,--a kind of weather most abhorred by mariners. But we hope that the
wind is changing, and that "fair weather cometh out of the North." God
will not suffer us to live long, we earnestly hope, in this condition of
misunderstanding and hatred, for it would be contrary to his established
laws that we should long continue to be one nation with such feelings
toward each other. The change will be in the North. Slavery will come to
be regarded as not in itself a sin, and the evils incident to it will be
left for those immediately concerned to be
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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.