On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Every measure, yet devised and executed, having for its object the suppression of anti-slavery, has been as idle and fruitless as pouring oil to extinguish fire.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass uses a powerful metaphor to describe the futility of attempts to suppress the anti-slavery movement.
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