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Boston in arms against the Constitution, and an Abolition fanatic, the distant leader, safe from the fire and the fagot he invokes from his seat in the Senate of the United States, giving the command.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Boston in arms against the Constitution, and an Abolition fanatic, the distant leader, safe from the fire and the fagot…”
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Sumner critiques the portrayal of abolitionists and their actions in response to the Constitution.
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