“I poured on a rainstorm of fire and brimstone as hot as I could, and you know something of what that is. I believe that I never said anything more savage in the pulpit or on the stump.”

—  Owen Lovejoy

Letter to Eunice Lovejoy https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA192#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false <br class="br">1860s

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American politician 1811–1864

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