“The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,
Than to be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God!”

— James Russell Lowell

"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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“The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,
Than to be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God!”