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of pretended justice and then sentenced by a savage jury to imprisonment or thirty nine on his bare back: it made no difference to how good his character had him before, or let him be ever so willing to obey the laws of the country.

But while this is said of many good men There is a class of pretended ministers and [[strikethrough]] pretended [[/strikethrough]] preachers, at lest eight tenths of the whale, that indoctrinated the great mass of the Southern people into the belief that slavery was a divine institution and was adapted to the welfare of both races; who vied with our corrupt polliticians [[politicians]] in influencing the minds of the Southern people against our Northern bretheren.  They used every exertion during the last war to wage the Southern prior to the fatal conflict, on many bloody fields: promising them success, saying "that the Lord of Hosts was with them in the struggle."  On some occasions I understand that preachers, that were in good standing [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethough]] in the church declared in an address to the first volunteers that entered the rebel service in this Country, that if they fall in Battle, fighting against the Northern abolitionists, or Lincolns hosts, they were [[?]] to be carried away to "Abraham's bason" there to [[enjoy?]] favour more in the presents of God and the holy angles. But in most cases

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