She is only a chronic insurrection. I mean exactly what I say — I am weighing my words. She is a pirate ship, and John Brown sails the sea a Lord High Admiral of the Almighty, with his commission to sink every pirate he meets on God's ocean of the nineteenth century.
Original passage & context
"She is only a chronic insurrection. I mean exactly what I say. I am weighing my words now. She is a pirate ship, and John Brown sails the sea a Lord High Admiral of the Almighty, with his commission to sink every pirate he meets on God's ocean of the nineteenth century."
'She' is Virginia — Phillips, speaking at Beecher's church while Brown stood trial, argues the state itself is no lawful government. Two obvious OCR errors restored ('oi' -> 'of', 'sliip' -> 'ship'), otherwise character-exact.