palmetto-groves

Updated: May 4, 2025

Are you to bless the earth beneath your feet because she spurns the footsteps of a slave, and then to choke the utterance of your voice lest the sound of liberty should be reëchoed from the palmetto-groves, mingled with the discordant notes of disunion? No! no!

Josiah Quincy - Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.