turn against themselves and consider their hopes as having been childish--their enthusiasm and, above all, their devotion absurd.
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I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
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