Through them the fires of Liberty have been kept alive in our country,--as Hume is constrained to confess that these same fires were kept alive in England by the Puritans, whom this great historian never praised, if he could help it.
Sumner acknowledges the role of abolitionists in preserving liberty, comparing them to the Puritans in England.
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