On the one hand stood slavery, a stern reality glaring frightfully upon us, with the blood of millions in its polluted skirts, terrible to behold, greedily devouring our hard earnings and feeding it upon our flesh.
Describing the horrifying and oppressive reality of slavery as a force that consumed the lives and labor of millions.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.