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Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.”
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Garrison condemns the extreme loyalty to the Union as a form of idolatry in his speech.
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