What! are we from the Northern States to be indicted as felons and incendiaries, for presenting petitions not exactly agreeable to some members from the South, by a jury of twelve men, appointed by a marshal, his office at the pleasure of the President!
Quincy vehemently opposes the idea of being criminalized for presenting petitions that some may find disagreeable.
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He considered himself placed between two batteries, neither of which regarded him as one of their soldiers.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
But circumstances will do more than any negotiation.
I am determined to get my own living, and to be dependent upon no one.
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