execrators

Updated: May 3, 2025

The friends among us of constitutional liberty and of legality, the enemies of anarchy, the unseduced execrators of slavery, the upholders of the tie of brotherhood across the Atlantic, may well look back with shame to the time and it was no matter of days or weeks, but a period of about four years together when the loudest and most accepted voices in England exulted over the now ludicrously delusive proposition that the United States were a burst bubble, and slavery the irremovable corner-stone of an empire.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866