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Excerpt from The Close of the Late Rebellion, in Rhode-Island: An Extract From a Letter by a Massachusetts Man Resident in Providence
Indignant citizens thus audaciously outraged, when I saw Dorr himself surveying with cool atrocity, streets through which he had determined to spread dismay and death when I saw all this and no hand raised to prevent it, I confess that my faith in rhode-island courage and love of liberty nearly failed me. My blood boiled with indignation. The words of the great Roman orator on a similar occasion were ringing in my ears: Quousque, How long, '0 Cataline, wilt thou abuse our patience? To what end will thy reinless audacity lead thee? There were doubtless some honest, well meaning men, who took part in this affair, duped by the falsehoods of the leaders bigt there were Very many for whom no such apol ogy could be pleaded.
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