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Quotes from On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington — James Russell Lowell

1819–1891 United States

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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington (1845)

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.

On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington (1845)

The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,
Than to be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God!

On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington (1845)

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