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As the night buoy struck the water a long-burning red light was fused by contact. The glow shone out over the waters. In the meantime, the "Massachusetts's" speed was being slowed rapidly, and a boat's crew stood at quarters. The boat put off quickly, guided by the glow of the red signal light on the buoy.
He could give gracious gifts, but on the understanding that they were of grace, not obligation. In the oppression of Massachusetts, this served as an unfortunate precedent. Nor must it be forgotten that the happiness of Connecticut was in part due to the fact that, as a matter of high policy, it was desired to conciliate her at Massachusetts's expense.
Such was Massachusetts's answer to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, and a triumphant slave-power. Its instant effect was to accelerate in the South the action of the disunion working forces there, to hurry the inevitable moment when the two sections would rush together in a death-grapple within or without Webster's once glorious Union.
The information which Schuyler had received was to the effect that all five, under the tremendous and enthusiastic pressure they had encountered in Philadelphia, had now resolved to act together in all things for the Colonies and against the Crown. "That means," said he, "that we shall all adopt Massachusetts's cause as our own.
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