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South Carolina , bankrupt , alone , with a hundred thousand more slaves than whites , four blacks to three whites , within her borders , flings her gauntlet at the feet of twenty - five millions of people in defense of an idea ...
South Carolina , bankrupt , alone , with a hundred thousand more slaves than whites , four blacks to three whites , within her borders , flings her gauntlet at the feet of twenty - five millions of people in defense of an idea ...
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She shall manufac ture for the South just as Lancashire does . I know what an in- fluence the South has on the manufacturers and clergy of Eng- land ; that is inevitable , in the nature of things . We have only human nature to work with ...
She shall manufac ture for the South just as Lancashire does . I know what an in- fluence the South has on the manufacturers and clergy of Eng- land ; that is inevitable , in the nature of things . We have only human nature to work with ...
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It is the aristocratic element which survived the Constitution , which our fathers thought could be safely left under it , and the South today is forced into this war by the natural growth of the antagonistic principle .
It is the aristocratic element which survived the Constitution , which our fathers thought could be safely left under it , and the South today is forced into this war by the natural growth of the antagonistic principle .
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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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