A great iniquity, hoary with age, proud and defiant, tainting the whole moral atmosphere of the country, subjecting both church and state to its control, demanded the startling shock which John Brown seemed especially inspired to give it.
Douglass emphasizes the moral urgency for action against the longstanding injustice of slavery.
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