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but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you
shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when
quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to
importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying,
What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly
from within? my friend suggested, -- "But these impulses may be from
below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such;
but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law
can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names
very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is
after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to
carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were
titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we
capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead
institutions. Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways
me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the
rude truth in all ways. If malice and vanity wear the coat of
philanthropy, shall that pass? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful
cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes,
why should I not say to him, `Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper:
be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your
hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black
folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and
graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the
affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, -- else it
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