Multiple choice

He who can peruse it without a tearful eye, a heaving breast, an afflicted spirit, without being filled with an unutterable abhorrence of slavery and all its abettors, and animated with a determination to seek the immediate overthrow of that execrable system, without trembling for the fate of this country in the hands of a righteous God, who is ever on the side of the oppressed, and whose arm is not shortened that it cannot save, must have a flinty heart, and be qualified to act the part of a trafficker “in slaves and the souls of men.”

  1. can peruse it without a tearful eye, a heaving breast, an afflicted spirit, without being filled with an unutterable abhorrence of slavery and all its abettors, and animated with a determination to seek the immediate overthrow of that execrable system

  2. could peruse it without a tearful eye, a heaving breast, an afflicted spirit, without being filled with an unutterable abhorrence of slavery and all its abettors, and animated with a determination to seek the immediate overthrow of this execrable system

  3. can peruse it without a tearful eye, a heaving breast, an afflicted spirit, without being filled with an unutterable abhorrence of slavery and all its abettors, and getting animated with a determination to seek the immediate overthrow of that execrable system

  4. can peruse it without a tearful eye, a heaving breast, an afflicted spirit, without being filled with an unutterable abhorrence of slavery and all its abettors, and animated with a determination to seek the immediate overthrow of such an execrable system

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Explanation

When talking about a person's ability to accomplish something in a given situation 'can' is preferred to 'could'. The 'without being' before filled is acting as a qualifier for both 'filled' as well as 'animated' so any other qualifier before 'animated' is redundant. The 'execrable system' is not defined hence 'that' is a better fit over 'this'. 'Such as' is used to illustrate something which is not the case here. Hence (1).