The youthful champions of the rights of human nature have buckled and are buckling on their armor; and the scourging overseer, and the lynching lawyer, and the servile sophist, and the faithless scribe, and the priestly parasite, will vanish before them like Satan touched by the spear of Ithuriel.
Quincy uses vivid imagery to describe the emerging champions of human rights and the forces opposing them.
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The spirit of freedom and the spirit of slavery are drawing together for the deadly conflict of arms.
He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!
They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
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