Among the outrages inflicted on that portion of the people of this country whose aspirations were raised to the greatest improvement that could possibly be effected in the condition of the human race,--the total abolition of slavery on earth,--that of calumny was the most glaring.
Quincy criticizes the calumny faced by abolitionists as a significant injustice.
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Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
The question raised by Martin Luther involved the whole theory of the rights of individual man, paramount to all human authority.
He dismissed from office, without trial, without charge, and without fault, faithful and able men.
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