With the Alleghany mountains for his pulpit, the country for his church and the whole civilized world for his audience, he was a thousand times more effective as a preacher than as a warrior, and the consciousness of this fact was the secret of his amazing complacency.
Douglass praises John Brown's effectiveness as a preacher, emphasizing the power of his message over his military actions.
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The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
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