James Russell Lowell,
On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington
(1845)
“ While Pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast! Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler duties first; The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions ”
James Russell Lowell,
On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington
(1845)
“ To the sympathies that God hat set within our spirit's core; Our country claims our fealty; we grant it so, but then Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. He's true to God who's true to man ”
