George Haven Putnam quotes:
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.