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Updated: May 15, 2025

Instead of being thus seated on a "heaven-kissing hill," and seen of all in its pure radiance; instead of enjoying its delightful airs, and imparting to them the healthful savor of justice, truth, mercy, magnanimity, see what a picture we present; our cannibal burnings of human beings our Lynch courts our lawless scourgings and capital executions, not only of slaves, but of freemen our demoniac mobs raging through the streets of our cities and large towns at midday as well as at midnight, shedding innocent blood, devastating property, and applying the incendiaries' torch to edifices erected and dedicated to FREE DISCUSSION the known friends of order, of law, of liberty, of the Constitution citizens, distinguished for their worth at home, and reflecting honor on their country abroad, shut out from more than half our territory, or visiting it at the hazard of their lives, or of the most degrading and painful personal inflictions freedom of speech and of the press overthrown and hooted at the right of petition struck down in Congress, where, above all places, it ought to have been maintained to the last the people mocked at, and attempted to be gagged by their own servants the time the office-honored veteran, who fearlessly contended for the right, publicly menaced for words spoken in his place as a representative of the people, with an indictment by a slaveholding grand jury in fine, the great principles of government asserted by our fathers in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in our Constitution, with which they won for us the sympathy, the admiration of the world all forgotten, dishonoured, despised, trodden under foot!

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4