“How does it appear…that
these States, who have been fighting for liberty and consider
themselves as the highest and most noble example of zeal for it,
cannot agree in any political Constitution, unless it indulge
and authorize them to enslave their fellow men—Ah! these
unclean spirits, like frogs, they, like the Furies of the poets
are spreading discord, and exciting men to contention and war.”
—Samuel Hopkins of Connecticut,
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