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In Boston, an early and most devoted Abolitionist was dragged through the streets with a halter about his neck; and in Illinois, another, while defending his press, was ferociously murdered.
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Sumner recounts the brutal treatment of abolitionists in Boston and Illinois, emphasizing the dangers they faced.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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