“The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Interview with Miles Standish.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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!”
"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)
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Source: prevale.net