He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that heard him;but then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word,or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle, with "Ran away from the subscriber" under it. The magic of the real presence of distress,the imploring human eye, the frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony,these he had never tried. He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenseless child,like that one which was now wearing his lost boy's little well-known cap; and so, as our poor senator was not stone or steel,as he was a man, and a downright noble-hearted one, too,he was, as everybody must see, in a sad case for his patriotism.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American abolitionist and author. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. Read more on Wikipedia →