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CHAPTER II THE ABOLITIONISTS—WHO AND WHAT THEY WERE
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In selecting those who are to receive its remembrance and its honors, the world has always given its preference to such as have battled for freedom. It may have been with the sword; it may have been with the pen; or it may have been with a tongue that was inflamed1 with holy rage against tyranny and wrong; but whatever the instrumentality employed; in whatever field the battle has been fought; and by whatsoever2 race, or class, or kind of men; the champions of human liberty have been hailed as the bravest of the brave and the most worthy3 to receive the acclaims4 of their fellows.
Now, if that estimate be not altogether inaccurate5, what place in the scale of renown6 must be assigned to those pioneers in the successful movement against African slavery in this country who have commonly been known as "Abolitionists"—a name first given in derision by their enemies? It should, in the opinion of the writer hereof, be the very highest. He is not afraid to challenge the whole record of human achievements by great and good men (always save and except that which is credited to the Saviour8 of mankind) for exhibitions of heroism9 superior to theirs. Nay10, when it is remembered that mainly through their efforts and sacrifices was accomplished11 a revolution by which four million human beings (but for the Abolitionists the number to-day in bondage12 would be eight millions) were lifted from the condition in which American slaves existed but a few years ago, to freedom and political equality with their former masters; and, at the same time when it is considered what qualities of heart and brain were needed for such a task, he does not believe that history, from its earliest chapters, furnishes examples of gods or men, except in very rare and
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liberator
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