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You young men of the Southern States! is the word Abolitionist so hateful to you, then?
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This was the name Abolitionist, odious then to the vast majority of people North, and especially
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When it required moral stamina to bear the name Abolitionist, here was a band of braves, who boldly flung to the breeze the banner of liberty to all alike.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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Your true Republican, your out-and-out Abolitionist, is as sure to strike you by his pantaloon tuft on his chin as the old Puritan made himself known by his closely-cropped head and thick, bushy moustaches.
The Typical Yankee 1863
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I have been told, and I believe such to be the fact, that my sending him these newspapers, and particularly the "Evening Post," led him to believe that I was an "Abolitionist" -- a person held in special abhorrence in those days by gentlemen from the South.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State Stephen Johnson Field 1857
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But what I fear is, (not from you, however,) that some of my advocates and champions will seek to recommend me to popular support by representing me as not an Abolitionist, which is false.
Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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But what I fear is, (not from you, however,) that some of my advocates and champions will seek to recommend me to popular support by representing me as not an Abolitionist, which is false.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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But what I fear is, (not from you, however,) that some of my advocates and champions will seek to recommend me to popular support by representing me as not an Abolitionist, which is false.
Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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The feeblest remonstrance against the increasing insolence of Southern demands was rudely dismissed as fanatical, and any attempt to awaken attention to the disloyal sentiments of Southern politicians was believed to be fully met and conclusively answered by the cry of "Abolitionist" and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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If the word 'Emancipationist,' -- meaning thereby one who looks to the welfare of the _white_ man rather than the negro -- be substituted for 'Abolitionist' in the following, our more intelligent readers will probably agree with Mr. Conway exactly:
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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