Their petitions were treated with contempt, and the petitioners themselves loaded with foul and infamous imputations, poured forth on a class of citizens as pure and virtuous as the inhabitants of any section of the United States.
Quincy denounces the contempt shown towards abolitionist petitioners and their character.
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