"No, no, my brother! and instead of weeping over your lost race, rejoice for them--since their death was needed for your redemption, and in redeeming you, heaven will redeem the artisan, cursed and feared by those--who have laid on him the iron yoke.Yes, my brother! the time draweth nigh--heaven's mercy will not stop with us alone.Yes, I tell you; in us will be rescued both the WOMAN and the SLAVE of these modern ages.The trial has been hard, brother; it has lasted throughout eighteen centuries; but it will last no longer.Look, my brother! see that rosy light, there in the east, gradually spreading over the firmament! Thus will rise the sun of the new emancipation--peaceful, holy, great, salutary, fruitful, filling the world with light and vivifying heat, like the day-star that will soon appear in heaven!"
"Yes, yes, my sister! I feel it.Your words are prophetic.We shall close our heavy eyes just as we see the aurora of the day of deliverance --a fair, a splendid day, like that which is about to dawn.Henceforth I will only shed tears of pride and glory for those of my race, who have died the martyrs of humanity, sacrificed by humanity's eternal enemies--
for the true ancestors of the sacrilegious wretches, who blaspheme the name of Jesus by giving it to their Company, were the false Scribes and Pharisees, whom the Saviour cursed!--Yes! glory to the descendants of my family, who have been the last martyrs offered up by the accomplices of all slavery and all despotism, the pitiless enemies of those who wish to think, and not to suffer in silence--of those that would feign enjoy, as children of heaven, the gifts which the Creator has bestowed upon all the human family.Yes, the day approaches--the end of the reign of our modern Pharisees--the false priests, who lend their sacrilegious aid to the merciless selfishness of the strong against the weak, by daring to maintain in the face of the exhaustless treasures of the creation, that God has made man for tears, and sorrow, and suffering--the false priests, who are the agents of all oppression, and would bow to the earth, in brutish and hopeless humiliation, the brow of every creature.No, no!