The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V

book could be distributed among the servile population more incendiary

than the Bible, if they could only read it. Will not our Southern brethren take alarm? The Society is reduced to the dilemma of either denying that the African has a soul to be saved, or of consenting to the terrible mockery of assuring him that the way of life is to be found only by searching a book which he is ...