The day has been blackened to me by the passage of the
Fugitive Slave Bill in the House, Eliot of Boston voting for it. If we should
read in Dino Compagni that in the tenth century a citizen of Florence had given
such a vote, we should see what an action he had done. But this the people of
Boston cannot see in themselves; they will uphold it.
SOURCE: Laura E. Richards, Editor, Letters and
Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, Volume 2, p. 265
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