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MEANS OF ENFRANCHISEMENT.
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by the power of love; and by the warmth of genial charity, causing man to cast from him the cloak of selfishness, which the blasts of abuse would 'have only made him wrap more closely about him. Enfranchisement, effected in this gentle and gradual manner, is, like mercy,

"Twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

And this, we are persuaded, is the only way it ever has been or can be accomplished, to the lasting good and advantage of both or either of the parties concerned, the master or the slave.