They are all urged through by the terror of those instruments of death, under the most affecting and pathetic appeals, from the constituents of the sufferers, to all the tender and benevolent sympathies of our nature.
Quincy expresses concern over the emotional manipulation used to push harmful legislation.
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The argument for the annexation, or reännexation, of Texas is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an honest people.
Texas and slavery are interwoven in every banner floating on the Democratic breeze. 'Freedom or death' should be inscribed on ours.
He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
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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