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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 10: wanted, an Anti-slavery society (search)
s of these atrocities have been adequately punished, or how many have been punished at all? It is wonderful with what complacency we have received the accounts of these horrible affairs. Nobody has been disturbed. The newspapers, beyond reporting the facts, have had nothing to say. The Church has been silent-at least that can be said of the Protestant Church. Not one brave or manly word of protest or condemnation has the writer heard, or heard of, from a Protestant American pulpit. Catholics, being victims and sufferers, have complained and protested. The greatest discomfort these things have produced has been occasioned by the apprehension that, through somebody's lack of patriotism, our flag may be withdrawn from the field of such glorious operations. It used to be our boast that Freedom followed our flag. Now slavery follows it. In view of the facts stated we can understand, not only the serenity, but the favor with which the people of this country, or the great body