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Quotation from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,—but by repentance, justice and mercy”
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XLV, Concluding Remarks (Project Gutenberg #203)
Stowe's closing warning that North, South and the church must repent before the judgment of God.
Citation: "Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,—but by repentance, justice and mercy" — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XLV, Concluding Remarks (Project Gutenberg #203). (id uncle-toms-cabin-q8)
Portrait: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Public domain.
