_That_ is why she wants to run
away! Her father does not know he is her father. God has His own
way of righting such things."
"There are things we must not talk about in this slavery question.
Stop! I did not, of course, know this. And Clayton did not know!"
"There are things which ought not to be; but if you vote for
oppression, if you vote yonder in your legislature for the
protection of this institution, if you must some day vote yonder in
Congress for its extension, for the right to carry it into other
lands--the same lands where now the feet of freedom-seekers are
hurrying from all over the world, so strangely, so wonderfully--then
you vote for a compromise that God never intended to go through or
to endure. Is that your vote? Come now, I will tell you something."
"You are telling me much."
"I will tell you--that night, when Carlisle would have killed you
in your room there, when I afterward put you all on parole--"
"Yes, yes."
"I saved you then; and sent them away.
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