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A com- parison has been drawn between the events of the Revolution and the tragedy at Alton . We have heard it asserted here , in Faneuil Hall , that Great Britain had a right to tax the Colonies , and we have heard the mob at Alton ...
A com- parison has been drawn between the events of the Revolution and the tragedy at Alton . We have heard it asserted here , in Faneuil Hall , that Great Britain had a right to tax the Colonies , and we have heard the mob at Alton ...
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We had heard in old Faneuil , and from the lips of those whose very names should have been a guaranty of their attach- ment to freedom , principles which would have blotted out every page of our past history .
We had heard in old Faneuil , and from the lips of those whose very names should have been a guaranty of their attach- ment to freedom , principles which would have blotted out every page of our past history .
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The white man heard them aghast . He had read of the streets of Paris running blood . The slave heard them with indifference ; it was a quarrel in the upper air , between other races , which did not concern him . The mulatto heard them ...
The white man heard them aghast . He had read of the streets of Paris running blood . The slave heard them with indifference ; it was a quarrel in the upper air , between other races , which did not concern him . The mulatto heard them ...
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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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