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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If we were bound to do it, we were bound to do it avowedly and above-board.
I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.
The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be eradicated but by the dissolution of the Union.
This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
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