Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and FreedomUniversity Press of America, 1982 - 221 pages |
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Wendell Phillips Louis Filler. 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 ...
Wendell Phillips Louis Filler. 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 ...
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... Union , when Union meant lies in the pulpit and mobs in the street , when Union meant making white men hypocrites and black men slaves . [ Cheers . ] I did prefer purity to peace - I ac- knowledge it . The child of six generations of ...
... Union , when Union meant lies in the pulpit and mobs in the street , when Union meant making white men hypocrites and black men slaves . [ Cheers . ] I did prefer purity to peace - I ac- knowledge it . The child of six generations of ...
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... Union shall mean justice , why should I object to it ? I endeavored honestly , and am not ashamed of it , to take nineteen States out of this Union , and consecrate them to liberty , and twenty millions of people answer me back , " We ...
... Union shall mean justice , why should I object to it ? I endeavored honestly , and am not ashamed of it , to take nineteen States out of this Union , and consecrate them to liberty , and twenty millions of people answer me back , " We ...
Contents
In Defense of Lovejoy | 1 |
The Boston Mob | 10 |
The Right of Petition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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