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INJUSTICE TO WINTHROP.
terrible calamity, and this "touch of nature made us" more than countrymen, it made us "kin."[1]
- ↑ I sincerely regret that I have done Mr. Winthrop great injustice. This Faneuil Hall speech of his was not the first manifestation of his zealous interest in the loyal cause during the late war. While it is quite true that Mr. Winthrop was strongly against the anti-slavery movement at the North, his addresses and speeches delivered during the war, as they have come to my knowledge since writing the foregoing chapter, prove him to have been among the most earnest in his support of the National Government in its efforts to suppress the
rebellion and to restore the Union.
Frederick Douglass.
