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Show ' ' ' 116 CHRISTINE. at rest. The outraged soul had gone with its complaints to the bar of the Eternal. .,,. • .,nnu• ) [qc ~ntd!rrtmtl, ~:lora[, an~ ~~iritmtl <!Lon~itiolt nf tqe ,SLuhc. TJIE American slave is a human being. IIe pos· scsses all the attributes of mind and heart that belong to the rest of mank~nd. lie has intellect with which to think, sensibility with which to feel, and toil which prompts him to vigorous and m~nly action. Nor is he destitute of the sublime faculty of reason, which is related to eternal and absolute trnths. Imagination and fancy, too, he possesses, in a very large degree. But all these faculties, which nature has bestowed upon the slave in common with other men, by a decree of slavery fixed and unalterable like the laws of the Medes and Persians, arc undeveloped, and the results, therefore, of their activities are not to be found. IIow mean then it must be to reproach the unfortunate slave with a lack of intellectual qnali- |