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ix the preacher alike are dragged at the chariot-wheels of a.

A kindly and generous spirit, filled like that of Whittier, 'with all gentleness and calmest hope,' makes a sacrifice of its most cherished delights and occupations when it springs to the defence of the difficult pass which commands the battlefield of Christian Freedom, with the determination to defend it unto blood, and yet to shed none.

Except in this difference of opinion as to the mode of effecting deliverance from oppression, Whittier is the Korner of America.