Are you to bless the earth beneath your feet because she spurns the footsteps of a slave, and then to choke the utterance of your voice lest the sound of liberty should be reëchoed from the palmetto-groves, mingled with the discordant notes of disunion?
Quincy emphasizes the contradiction of celebrating freedom while suppressing the voices of those advocating for it.
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