The Jews expelled from Spain by merciless decree, the Huguenots driven from France by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, our own Puritan fathers compelled to exile for religious Freedom,--all these receive a gushing sympathy, and we detest the tyrants.
This quote draws parallels between historical persecutions and the sympathy they evoke.
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