Proceedings of the Union League of Philadelphia Regarding the Assassination of
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Nor steel nor poison, Nor malice domestic, foreign levy nothing Can touch him further. Slavery has done its worst ! Its hatred of all that is just and pure, its malevolence, its brutality, its violence, its heartlessness, its treach ery, its defiance of every law, human and Divine, are all embodied in that miserable assassin who murdered our good President as he sat, in supposed security, in the capital of our country, by the side of his wife. They are embodied, too, in that twin representative... who entered a private house at midnight, on a pretended mission of mercy, rushed to the bedside of a sleeping, helpless and almost dying man, plunged his dagger into his throat, and struck down his 508 PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA 35 sons who were watching by his side. These were not the deeds of two individuals, but representative acts committed by the right hand and left hand of slavery, which illustrate and typify its soul and its spirit; one and the same spirit which gathered and ruled those secret societies in the North and in the South, where the rebellion was hatched.
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