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It did not prevail at Andover
alone, but all over country.
The occasions gave rise to many
exceptional phenomena. Many
things were done which, in the
light of the present, seem utterly
unaccountable. One of these
unaccountable things was the
opposition made As the antislavery
movement, and the attempt
to justify American Slavery from
the Bible made by professors in
the most venerable, learned, and
orthodox Theological Seminary
in America; and that too in
the nineteenth century of the
Christian era! One such fact
might furnish [?iation] if not
justification for many small
indiscretions, made in the time
of the progress of numerous events
by earnest, devoted, and con-