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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. "
Oppression
Over
Own
" 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? "
New
Old
Say
" John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. "
Brown
Slave
Peculiar
" 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. "
Faith
Right
Understand
" 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. "
Duty
Government
False
" We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. "
Trying
Success
Beginning
" Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. "
Purpose
Constitution
Government
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