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Page 66
... the Clays , the Websters , and the Douglases , that bow no lofty forehead in the dust , but can find ample room and verge enough under the Con- stitution . Our friends go down there , and must be dwarfed into pygmies before they can ...
... the Clays , the Websters , and the Douglases , that bow no lofty forehead in the dust , but can find ample room and verge enough under the Con- stitution . Our friends go down there , and must be dwarfed into pygmies before they can ...
Page 67
I do my duty in a private communication to him first , then in public to his friends and mine . The friendship that will not bear this criticism is but the frostwork of a winter's morning , which the sun looks upon and it is gone .
I do my duty in a private communication to him first , then in public to his friends and mine . The friendship that will not bear this criticism is but the frostwork of a winter's morning , which the sun looks upon and it is gone .
Page 89
It is a grave thing when a State puts a man among her jewels -especially one whose friends frown on discussion — the glitter of whose fame makes doubtful acts look heroic . One paper , a tea- table critic , warns a speaker not born in ...
It is a grave thing when a State puts a man among her jewels -especially one whose friends frown on discussion — the glitter of whose fame makes doubtful acts look heroic . One paper , a tea- table critic , warns a speaker not born in ...
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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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