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the free, a country deserving to be loved. He gave a thrilling 

 account of a heroic girl, whom her lover had conveyed in a 

 box from the Slave States : for eighteen hours she was resting 

 on her head, yet no groan escaped her ; God had written in 

 her heart the love of freedom. For a month after, she hovered 

 between life and death. " Had she been born in Massachu- 

 setts, and there was not a spot where she could be safe in the 

 State, why then — God damn the State ! " (Immense applause, 

 mingled with hisses.) It is a matter of course for good church- 

 goers to pronounce God's damnation on their fellow-Christians 

 who differ from them, as part of their worship ; but it is un- 

 usual for patriotic men to speak thus of their country. Philip 

 remarked, " You must fancy this uttered, not by a firebrand 

 or a hard logician, but by one of the most benevolent-looking 

 men of the country, the Chrysostom of New England. You 

 see to what a pitch of apathy the nation had got, when such 

 men think it their bounden duty to use such language, in order 

 to stir them up. I asked him if he uttered the curse (a con- 

 ditional one) in the heat of excitement : he said, 6 No ! He 

 thought the devil ought not to have all the good words.' I 

 asked W. L. Garrison, afterwards, if this was his usual style. 

 He said that the cursing part was a new feature of that even- 

 ing. He did not approve of it, because you cannot separate 

 the Commonwealth from the individuals who form it ; adding, 

 ' I think " Father, forgive them," is the better form of the 

 statement ! ' He himself has the sweetest look and tones, when 

 you get into his own sphere." 



Philip paid a brief visit to some New England towns ; his 

 longest was to Amherst, where there is a college, of which 

 Mr. C. B. Adams was a professor (he died in 1853), and where 

 his collection of Panama shells is deposited, of which Philip 

 quotes the catalogue in his Report, etc. (pp. 267-280) : he 

 there speaks in warm terms of Professor Adams's patient and 

 laborious accuracy, though he differed from some of his con- 

 clusions. He worked incessantly for most of a week, from 

 breakfast till supper, examining these shells and those from 

 Jamaica, and comparing them with the list ; and sketched 



