In Memory Author:Theodore Dwight Weld Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: e REMARKS OF JOHN H. JilORISON, D.D. t (From the Unitarian Review.) Recently, at a funeral in Hyde Park, more people than the large house could hold... more » came together, to show how much they honored and reverenced the character and memory of one who had lived there as if she were the lowliest among the lowly. Her family had been second to no other in the proudest aristocracy of the proudest State in the Union. She was born in one of the chief strongholds of slavery, with all the social, pecuniary, and political privileges which slavery at the highest point of its ascendency could bestow. But, from her childhood, she saw the cruel injustice involved in it. Her clear eye and true heart were never deceived by the false lights and blandishments which were thrown around her. In early youth, with all the charm that beauty, intelligence, and family distinction could give, she left everything behind, and gave herself entirely to the cause of the slave. In referring to the testimony of her sister respecting the evils of slavery, she said : " Of the particular acts which she has stated, I have no personal knowledge, as they occurred before my remembrance ; but of the spirit that prompted them, and that constantly displays itself in scenes of similar horror, the recollections of my childhood, and the effaceless imprint upon my riper years, with the breaking of my heartstrings, when, finding that I was powerless to shield the victims, I tore myself from my home and friends, and became an exile among strangers, — all these throng around me as witnesses, and their testimony is graven on my memory with a pen of fire. Why I did not become totallyhardened under the daily operation of this system, God only knows. Even before my heart was touched with the love of Christ, I used to say,' Oh t...« less