Examples from literature

• Can an abolitionist consistently take office, or vote, under the Constitution of the United States? 
• He spent some time there and in France, moving on a footing of honorable equality among the distinguished abolitionists of those countries. 
• I am opposed to the abolitionists, because they trample under foot the Constitution and laws of their country. 
• I told them I and several others on board were abolitionists. 
• In fact, the majority of abolitionists were amazed and bewildered when war came because it was not being waged to free the slaves. 
• Then soon I became an abolitionist and conscientiously refused to vote or accept citizenship under a constitution which ordered the return of fugitive slaves. 
• What abolitionists feared far more than secession was that to save the Union some compromise would be made which would fasten slavery on the nation. 
• What mockery to quote the letter of the law in those states, to show that abolitionists would have secured to them the legal protection of an impartial trial!