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It is the abuse of the shelter of official station to circulate calumny with impunity.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “It is the abuse of the shelter of official station to circulate calumny with impunity.”
Editor's note · Context
Quincy warns against the misuse of official power to spread falsehoods without accountability.
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Texas and slavery are interwoven in every banner floating on the Democratic breeze. 'Freedom or death' should be inscribed on ours.
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.
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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