Excerpt from The Story of My Life, Vol. 2 HE intense excitement of the anti-slavery reform, then approaching its crisis, made the pastoral relation, at that time, a most difficult one. The South was solid in its determination to maintain slavery at any cost. It scorned the idea of being limited to any territory, or of being kept within any bounds Robert G. Toombs of South Carolina declared on the floor of Congress, that he would yet call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill, and that the slave states would brook neither interference nor dictation. It began to be evident to 'the most superficial observer, that the country must eventually become all free or all slave, and, as the North had developed hostility toward this relic of barbarism that could not be silenced, and would not sur render, men and women alike looked forward to the future with anxiety, and wondered what the end would be. Ministers who accepted invitations to become pastors of (449) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.