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By liberals and progressives are urging a posthum. pardon of John Brown who commited atrocities in name of what we consider a just cause.
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The illustrious Editor of Seward's posthum - ous publication would probably have omitted the Poem, that I have mentioned with concern, had he not thought himself obliged to obey the testamentary injunctions of the departed Poet -
The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers William Hayley , William Cowper 1812
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