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By Harriet Beecher Stowe
A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,—but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God!
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, vol. II (1852), 1852 · Vol. II, Chapter XLV, "Concluding Remarks", p. 322 (printed page number, seen)
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- Internet Archive (Rosenstock First Editions collection scan of vol. II of the 1852 two-volume edition, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington)
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From the closing pages of Chapter XLV, "Concluding Remarks", of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852, vol. II). The author speaks in her own voice, not through a character.