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His heart and mind were both nourished into their full dimensions under the fostering influences of our free institutions; so that, being reared a freeman, he thought and spake as became a freeman.
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Creswell reflects on how Henry Winter Davis's upbringing in a free society shaped his thoughts and speech.
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