Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and FreedomUniversity Press of America, 1982 - 221 pages |
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... Constitution - the opiate with which Free Soil quiets its con- science for voting under a proslavery government — I heard first suggested by Mr. Garrison in 1838. It was elaborately argued that year in all our antislavery gatherings ...
... Constitution - the opiate with which Free Soil quiets its con- science for voting under a proslavery government — I heard first suggested by Mr. Garrison in 1838. It was elaborately argued that year in all our antislavery gatherings ...
Page 63
... Constitution can man hold property in man . For the republic , such a decree will be the way of peace and safety . As slavery is banished from the national jurisdiction , it will cease to vex our national politics . It may linger in the ...
... Constitution can man hold property in man . For the republic , such a decree will be the way of peace and safety . As slavery is banished from the national jurisdiction , it will cease to vex our national politics . It may linger in the ...
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... constitutional right to abolish slavery — a right Southern treason has just given us , a right , the use of which is enjoined by the sternest necessity - if , after that , the North goes back to the Constitution of '89 , she assumes , a ...
... constitutional right to abolish slavery — a right Southern treason has just given us , a right , the use of which is enjoined by the sternest necessity - if , after that , the North goes back to the Constitution of '89 , she assumes , a ...
Contents
In Defense of Lovejoy | 1 |
The Boston Mob | 10 |
The Right of Petition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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