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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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Yes even in sleep the impression that [?music?] will make the souls of the despairing sing for joy and which can cause that poor suffering thing, the sport of passion, the human heart to reel beneath its overpowering load of rapture as to shiver and shrink [any?] into the still darkness of a hopeless night and yet for every single word that we shall speak, We shall give an account of in the last day. We then should look well to our words, and especially you whose words have the most weight, and fall as dew in passion, with the heaviest [poss?]
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Yes even in sleep the impression that [?music?] will make the souls of the despairing sing for joy and which can cause that poor suffering thing, the sport of passion, the human heart to reel beneath its overpowering load of rapture as to shiver and shrink [any?] into the still darkness of a hopeless night and yet for every single word that we shall speak, We shall give an account of in the last day. We then should look well to our words, and especially you whose words have the most weight, and fall as dew in passion, with the heaviest [poss?]
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