Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and FreedomUniversity Press of America, 1982 - 221 pages |
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Page xii
... North spoke for Free Soil , but rarely for civil rights . Jackson's Administration was sympathetic to Southern fears for its slave system and more than willing to suppress anti- slavery elements as necessary . Although some antislavery ...
... North spoke for Free Soil , but rarely for civil rights . Jackson's Administration was sympathetic to Southern fears for its slave system and more than willing to suppress anti- slavery elements as necessary . Although some antislavery ...
Page 128
... North . Say not that my crit- icism is harsh . I know their pretense . It is , we must conciliate , compromise , postpone , practice finesse , make promises or break them , do anything , to gain time and concentrate the North against ...
... North . Say not that my crit- icism is harsh . I know their pretense . It is , we must conciliate , compromise , postpone , practice finesse , make promises or break them , do anything , to gain time and concentrate the North against ...
Page 140
... 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 and Ellsworth and Winthrop and Putnam and Wesselhoeft have ...
... 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 and Ellsworth and Winthrop and Putnam and Wesselhoeft have ...
Contents
In Defense of Lovejoy | 1 |
The Boston Mob | 10 |
The Right of Petition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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