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Page xii
The North , like the South , turned down the easiest , fairest solution to the problem : the national purchase from the slaveholders of their Negro property with funds derived from the sale of Federal lands in the West .
The North , like the South , turned down the easiest , fairest solution to the problem : the national purchase from the slaveholders of their Negro property with funds derived from the sale of Federal lands in the West .
Page 128
It is for the chance of saving such a Union that Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams break in Washington all the promises of the canvass , and countenance measures which stifle the conscience and confuse the moral sense of the North .
It is for the chance of saving such a Union that Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams break in Washington all the promises of the canvass , and countenance measures which stifle the conscience and confuse the moral sense of the North .
Page 140
It seems to me impossible that the thrifty and painstaking North , after keeping six hundred thousand men idle for two or three years , at a cost of two million dollars a day ; after that flag lowered at Sumter ; after Baker and Lyon ...
It seems to me impossible that the thrifty and painstaking North , after keeping six hundred thousand men idle for two or three years , at a cost of two million dollars a day ; after that flag lowered at Sumter ; after Baker and Lyon ...
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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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