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He could not be otherwise than the constant foe of slavery, and the constant friend of everything which went to emancipate and elevate the slave.
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Hoar asserts a person's steadfast opposition to slavery and support for emancipation.
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You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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