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putrid water, breeding from year to year every perni- 

 cious exhalation, and all sorts of noxious reptiles, to 

 find their way at every election into the regions of 

 pollution and iniquity, .and which are always to be 

 traced by the filthy slime they leave behind them." 



He referred to Massachusetts, and his advocacy of 

 slavery emancipation, as follows : — 



" Massachusetts has not forgotten the God that 

 guided the Mayflower to Plymouth rock — and though 

 the peerless intellect of Massachusetts may suffer 

 from the stroke of a Southern sun, the heart of the 

 old Bay State is sound, and still beats responsive to 

 the instincts of nature, the dictates of humanity, and 

 the claims of the trembling outcast who asks a shelter 

 on her soil. 



" If it be imputed to me that I have identified my- 

 self with those who are held in slavery on this soil, 

 and have sought to promulgate the doctrines of eman- 

 cipation, I acknowledge the justice of the impeach- 

 ment, and plead guilty. My offence reaches far be- 

 yond the limits of the United States. My aspirations 

 for freedom are as wide as the soil polluted by the 

 footprints of a tyrant. In advocating the rights of 

 humanity I know of no geographical boundaries. I 

 walk upon God's earth, among God's children, and 



