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A life devoted to it would be nobly spent or sacrificed.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “A life devoted to it would be nobly spent or sacrificed.”
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Quincy asserts that dedicating one's life to the cause of abolition would be a noble endeavor.
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Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.
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They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
The spirit of freedom and the spirit of slavery are drawing together for the deadly conflict of arms.
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