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were tarred and feathered.
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An itinerant piano tuner in Tennessee
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was lynched
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because he was from Massachusetts.
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Fear set in across the South that
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there were going to be other abolition emissaries --
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that was always the term used.
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And there were predictions and threats of all kinds,
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especially in South Carolina.
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John Brown when he --
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and he did read some of these newspapers --
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must have smiled.