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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845

Page 66

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Words can soothe and calm the troubled spirit and comfort the afflicted and oppressed or they can lash the waves of passion hate and strife to a fearful fury Wordes gentle sincere and kind when are spoken from a warm heart, can make friends whom death has not power to sever and the harsh and angry word oft makes a life long enemy Words are fearful things how they rush and ring along the highway by the retired pathway, in the valley and in the meadow, on the mountain , in the village by the river side, and along the shore the most remote and quiet hamlet has its countless words and through town and city they roll and dwell with a continuous roar. There are words
 
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