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Had he confned himself to simple abuse and caricature of the self-denying and Christian abolitionists of England "the broad-brimmed philanthropists of Exeter Hall" there would have been small occasion for noticing his splenetic and discreditable production.

John Greenleaf Whittier - The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII,: The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics: and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

Had he confned himself to simple abuse and caricature of the self-denying and Christian abolitionists of England "the broad-brimmed philanthropists of Exeter Hall" there would have been small occasion for noticing his splenetic and discreditable production.

John Greenleaf Whittier - The Conflict with Slavery, Part 1, from Volume VII,: The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics: and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism