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ance to slavery itself — Union or no Union , Constitution or no Constitution , freedom for every man between the oceans , and from the hot Gulf to the frozen pole ! You may as well dam up Niagara with bulrushes as bind our antislavery ...
ance to slavery itself — Union or no Union , Constitution or no Constitution , freedom for every man between the oceans , and from the hot Gulf to the frozen pole ! You may as well dam up Niagara with bulrushes as bind our antislavery ...
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Before the Union existed , Washington and Jefferson uttered the boldest antislavery opinions ; today they would be lynched in their own homes ; and their sentiments have been mobbed this very year in every great city of the North .
Before the Union existed , Washington and Jefferson uttered the boldest antislavery opinions ; today they would be lynched in their own homes ; and their sentiments have been mobbed this very year in every great city of the North .
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We grapple the Union together with hooks of steel - make it as lasting as the granite which underlies the con- tinent . People may say this is a strange language for me , a Disunionist . Well , I was a Disunionist , sincerely , for ...
We grapple the Union together with hooks of steel - make it as lasting as the granite which underlies the con- tinent . People may say this is a strange language for me , a Disunionist . Well , I was a Disunionist , sincerely , for ...
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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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