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On the constitutional questions which have at various times arisen the citizenship of the colored man ... The idea of the antislavery character of the Constitution — the opiate with which Free Soil quiets its con- science for voting ...
On the constitutional questions which have at various times arisen the citizenship of the colored man ... The idea of the antislavery character of the Constitution — the opiate with which Free Soil quiets its con- science for voting ...
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It never had a constitutional existence here . Separate this government from all interference ... He says : The time will come when courts or Congress will declare , that no- where under the Constitution can man hold property in man .
It never had a constitutional existence here . Separate this government from all interference ... He says : The time will come when courts or Congress will declare , that no- where under the Constitution can man hold property in man .
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I will not stop to remind you that , standing as we do today , with the full constitutional right to abolish slavery — a right ... the North goes back to the Constitution of '89 , she assumes , a second time , afresh , un- necessarily ...
I will not stop to remind you that , standing as we do today , with the full constitutional right to abolish slavery — a right ... the North goes back to the Constitution of '89 , she assumes , a second time , afresh , un- necessarily ...
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| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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