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Have we not seen printing-presses destroyed; halls erected for the promotion of human freedom levelled with the dust, and consumed by fire; and wanton, unprovoked murder perpetrated with impunity, by slave-mongers?
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Quincy condemns the violence and destruction inflicted by slaveholders on advocates for human freedom.
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