Abraham Lincoln . l helped them on whenthe wind was in the right direction to use it. They reached Xew Orleans Avithout special adventure. AbrahamLincoln, with no responsibility upon him in disposing of the cargo, aswhen upon the first trip, wandered about the city. He visited the sec-tion settled by the Spaniards, and also the quarter occupied by theFrench and Creole population. Pie saw gangs of slaves which hadcome from Kentucky and Tennessee marched to the sugar-cane andcotton plantations. He stood in the auction-room where they weresold, and saw women and girls stripped to the waist, men h
Abraham Lincoln . l helped them on whenthe wind was in the right direction to use it. They reached Xew Orleans Avithout special adventure. AbrahamLincoln, with no responsibility upon him in disposing of the cargo, aswhen upon the first trip, wandered about the city. He visited the sec-tion settled by the Spaniards, and also the quarter occupied by theFrench and Creole population. Pie saw gangs of slaves which hadcome from Kentucky and Tennessee marched to the sugar-cane andcotton plantations. He stood in the auction-room where they weresold, and saw women and girls stripped to the waist, men handlingthem as they handled cows and calves: making them run to see if theywere lame, looking into their mouths to ascertain if their teeth weresound, calculating their age, and whether they would bear hears the auctioneer telling their good points : how much work theycan do, what they are fitted for, how good and kind and religious theyare. He hears the bidding, and beholds maidens shrinkinor from men. ^^I*- ^---^ A CITIZEN OF ILLINOIS. 50 Tvho look them over with leering eyes. He hears the wailing and seesthe weeping, as husbands, wives, and children aie separated, never tomeet again. The boatman turns away with something rising in his throat, andgoes out with John Hanks into the sunshine. His li))s are quivering,for his soul is on hre. Jo/nt, if I ever (jet a e/uOfCf ff> hlf thai iiistlfntlo)). III hit If Ii((r(Lhij the Eternal God / () Who is he, to hit the institution of slavery a blow . He is only aboatman, a wood - chopper, teamster, backwoodsman—nothing position of influence is he likely to attain to enable him to strikeat slavery^ His school-days have been less than a year. He isunknown, excejit to a few people. Slavery is incorporated into theframework of society and legalized in half of the States of the Ke-public. It is intrenched in Church and State alike; ])ronounced bydoctors of divinity and statesmen to be divinely establishetl for the
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