Infuriated mobs, murdering the peaceful ministers of Christ for the purpose of extinguishing the light of a printing-press, and burning with unhallowed fire the hall of freedom, the orphan's school, and the church devoted to the worship of God!
Quincy describes the violent actions of mobs against peaceful ministers and institutions of freedom.
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