Would to god, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully
returned to these questions! then would my task be light, and my burden easy and
delightful. for who is there so cold, that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? who so
obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not acknowledge such
priceless benefits? who so stubborn and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the
hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?
i am not that man. in a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man
leap as an hart."
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