“Those persons in this city who mean to oppose the execution
of the Fugitive Slave Law are traitors! traitors! traitors! This law ought to
be obeyed, and it will be enforced; in this city of Syracuse it shall be
enforced, and that too in the midst of the next Anti-Slavery convention, if
there shall be any occasion to enforce it.”
– Daniel Webster, Syracuse, New
York, June 9, 1851.
SOURCE: Gurney S. Strong, Early landmarks of Syracuse, p. 277
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