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It would have sent an electric shock through the land , and called forth from its slumbering retreats all the spirit of olden time . What is it that thus palsies our strength and blinds our foresight ? We have become so familiar with ...
It would have sent an electric shock through the land , and called forth from its slumbering retreats all the spirit of olden time . What is it that thus palsies our strength and blinds our foresight ? We have become so familiar with ...
Page 58
Advertiser , and that class of prints , that there were such things as a slave and a slaveholder in the land , and so gave them some more intelligent basis than their mere instincts to hate William Lloyd Garrison ?
Advertiser , and that class of prints , that there were such things as a slave and a slaveholder in the land , and so gave them some more intelligent basis than their mere instincts to hate William Lloyd Garrison ?
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I am not quite of the opinion of Mr. Secretary Boutwell , when he said here the other night , that fifty years hence the idea that a man could own land , and leave it to his children , would be ridiculous . I have not quite come to that ...
I am not quite of the opinion of Mr. Secretary Boutwell , when he said here the other night , that fifty years hence the idea that a man could own land , and leave it to his children , would be ridiculous . I have not quite come to that ...
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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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