C., where he had gone at the risk of his life to defend Massachusetts colored sailors who were imprisoned there, and appealed to them not to give the people of South Carolina the right to excuse their own conduct by citing the example of Massachusetts.
Hoar appeals to the crowd's sense of justice by referencing his father's defense of imprisoned sailors in South Carolina.
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