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No one doubts now that , should the South emancipate , England would make haste to recognize and help her . ... They may well admire and envy the strength of our government , when , instead of England's im- pressment and pinched levies ...
No one doubts now that , should the South emancipate , England would make haste to recognize and help her . ... They may well admire and envy the strength of our government , when , instead of England's im- pressment and pinched levies ...
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When England declares war , she gives slavery a fresh lease of fifty years . Even if we have no war with England , let another eight or ten months be as little successful as the last , and Europe will acknowledge the Southern ...
When England declares war , she gives slavery a fresh lease of fifty years . Even if we have no war with England , let another eight or ten months be as little successful as the last , and Europe will acknowledge the Southern ...
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Why , the waves of the ocean might as well rebel against our granite coast , or the wild bulls of the prairies against man , as either England or the South undertake to stop the march of the nineteen Free States of this continent .
Why , the waves of the ocean might as well rebel against our granite coast , or the wild bulls of the prairies against man , as either England or the South undertake to stop the march of the nineteen Free States of this continent .
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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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