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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