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For the wild-cat-like creature might take it into its head, when once it had got a taste of blood, to suppress some other isms in the community besides

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

The wild-cat-like spirit which had hunted Thompson out of the country and Lovejoy to death, had more than made good the immense deficit of services thus created through the introduction upon the national stage of the reform of this consummate and incomparable orator.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

The greater the horror committed by the wild-cat-like spirit, the greater the help which the reform derived therefrom.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

The wild-cat-like spirit was in the air -- in the seething heart of the populace.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

Lovejoy thereupon removed his paper to Alton, but the wild-cat-like spirit pursued him across the river and destroyed his press.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

Here is a specimen of the sort of goading which the wild-cat-like spirit of the city got from the orators.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889