On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the pervasive and underestimated nature of treason leading up to the Civil War.
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