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The Death Chain and the Blind Slave of the Mines
A sermon on suffering and providence contrasts infant death with divine mercy, then recounts President Hitchcock's tale of a blind coal-mine slave singing of heaven, followed by a wary travel note about California migration via the Isthmus of Darien and Panama.
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Bitchcock
Mid Lothian
Virginia
Chat Mine
California
Darien
Panama
New York
Chagres
Paname
San Francisco
New York Herald
Atlantic
Africa
Galland
Arupies
Ras
Chagrea
Cruces
Pacific Ocean
Giust
Pacific
Pane
Montis
Pitts
House of Representatives
Root
Ohio
New Mexico
Hall
Missouri
MIT Aays
Washington
Polke
Berrien
Ae Dujana
Tete Braise
Aspinwall and Otters
Hale
Cameron
Senate
Mexico
Alabama
Robinson
Giddiaus
District of Columbia
Jacob Thompson
Tompkins
Mississippi
Giddings
Dawas
New Orlens
Vera Cruz
Vinton
Smith
Connecticut
Toombs
Cobb
Fisher
Chin
Lahm
Bunt
Bright
Uist
Flun
D. Go
Erie Ny, Express
Republic
Christendom
Committee
Solimbia
Eloimes
Holmes
South Carolina
Palmetto
House
Elouse
Lewis Gass
Jras
Rome
Wasuiieros
Nites
Niles
Hovst
Rockwell
Conn
Boyd
Wilson
N. H
Brown
Miss
Yeas
Giddiegs
Cabell
Florida
Bort
8. C
Willson
Collamer
Burt
Winthrop