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It has been asked why Lovejoy and his friends did not appeal to the executive - trust their defense to the police of the city . It has been hinted that , from hasty and ill - judged excitement , the men within the building provoked a ...
It has been asked why Lovejoy and his friends did not appeal to the executive - trust their defense to the police of the city . It has been hinted that , from hasty and ill - judged excitement , the men within the building provoked a ...
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They took an old mulatto , worth a million , who had simply asked for his rights under that decree , and hanged him . A white lawyer of seventy , who drafted the petition , they hanged at his side . They took Ogé , broke him on the ...
They took an old mulatto , worth a million , who had simply asked for his rights under that decree , and hanged him . A white lawyer of seventy , who drafted the petition , they hanged at his side . They took Ogé , broke him on the ...
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I don't want the sub- ject made political in a bad sense of the word , but in a higher sense . When men have wrongs to complain of , they should go to the ballot box and right them . I may be asked if I would give universal suffrage to ...
I don't want the sub- ject made political in a bad sense of the word , but in a higher sense . When men have wrongs to complain of , they should go to the ballot box and right them . I may be asked if I would give universal suffrage to ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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