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I had seen enough to convince me that nothing, but the severest chastisement, administered by the hands of the Lord through the instrumentality of his chosen people, could bring our misguided brethren of the South to a just and proper sense of their duty to God and their fellow-men. They had long "eaten of the bread of wickedness, and drank the wine of violence," and they had utterly forgotten that "righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people..."