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LONDON.
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William Tweedie  337 Strand,
and may be had of all 'booksellers.
1858
 

Leeds Anti-slavery Series, No. 69

DREADFUL EFFECTS OF IRRESPONSIBLE POWER.

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A BELOVED friend in South Carolina, the wife of a slaveholder, with whom I have often mingled my tears, when, helpless and hopeless, we deplored together the horrors of slavery, related ot me, some years since, the following circumstances: -
     "On the plantation adjoining her hushand's, there was a slave of pre-eminent piety.  His master was not a professor of religion; but the superior excellence of this disciple of Christ was not unmarked by him; and I believe he was so sensible of the good influence of his piety, that he did not deprive him of the few religious privileges within his reach.  A planter was one day dining with the owner of this slave, and, in the course of conversation, observed that all professions of religion among slaves were mere hypocrisy.  The other asserted a contrary opinion, adding, 'I have a slave, who, I believe, would rather die than deny his Saviour.'  This was ridiculed, and the master urged to prove his assertion.  He accordingly sent for the man of God, and peremptorily ordered him to deny his belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.  The slave pleaded to be excused, constantly affirming that he would rather die than deny the Redeemer, whose blood was shed for him.  His master, after vainly trying to induce obedience by threats, had him terribly whipped.  The fortitude of the sufferer was not to be shaken; be nobly rejected the offer of exemption from further chastisement at the expense of destroying his soul; and this blessed martyr died in consequence of this severe infliction.  O how bright a gem will this victim of irresponsible power be, in that crown which sparkles on the Redeemer's brow! and that many such will cluster there, I have not the shadow of a doubt.
                                                                  "SARAH M. GRIMKE."
[Miss Grimke is a daughter of the late Judge Grimke, of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and sister of the late Hon. Thomas S. Grimke.]


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 69
Sold by W. and F. G. CASH, 5, Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE JOWETT, Friends' Meeting Yard, Leeds, at 1s. 2. per 100.
 

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