It will go down to immortality with its foot upon the dragon of Slavery, and with the sword of the spirit in its hand, but with a tender light in its eye, and a human love in its smile.
George F. Hoar: “It will go down to immortality with its foot upon the dragon of Slavery, and with the sword of the spirit in its hand…”
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Hoar poetically describes the enduring legacy of a figure in the fight against slavery.
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