The sad thing is that, in the average American mind, horrors of this character have become so frequent since the slave-holding rebellion that they excite neither shame nor surprise; neither pity for the slain, nor indignation for the slayers.
He laments the desensitization of society to racial violence, indicating a loss of moral outrage.
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