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Josiah Quincy: “I am in the midst of that fiery ordeal, and day and night absorbed in the struggle against this attempt at my ruin.”

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I am in the midst of that fiery ordeal, and day and night absorbed in the struggle against this attempt at my ruin.
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Josiah Quincy
Federalist · Massachusetts

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Josiah Quincy expresses his intense struggle against political attacks aimed at him.

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