Note 79 — ABOLITION AND PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY IN WEST VIRGINIA.

Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., July 1, 1862, p. 3035. Mr. Hale quotes from memory. The passage in the original, entitled “A Parable against Persecution,” is as follows: “And God said, Have I borne with him these hundred ninety and eight years, and nourished him, and clothed him, notwithstanding his rebellion against me, and couldst not thou, that art thyself a sinner, bear with him one night?”—Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. II. p. 122.