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Every nation must maintain peace within her limits . No government can exist which does not fulfill that function . When we say the Union will maintain peace in Caro- lina , that being a Slave State , what does " peace " mean ?
Every nation must maintain peace within her limits . No government can exist which does not fulfill that function . When we say the Union will maintain peace in Caro- lina , that being a Slave State , what does " peace " mean ?
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And yet I love peace . But it is real peace ; not peace such as we have had ; not peace that meant lynch law in the Carolinas and mob law in New York ; not peace that meant chains around Boston Courthouse , a gag on the lips of states- ...
And yet I love peace . But it is real peace ; not peace such as we have had ; not peace that meant lynch law in the Carolinas and mob law in New York ; not peace that meant chains around Boston Courthouse , a gag on the lips of states- ...
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In peace no man may be deprived of his life but " by the judgment of his peers , or the law of the land . " To touch life , you must have a grand jury to present , a petit jury to indict , a judge to condemn , and a sheriff to execute .
In peace no man may be deprived of his life but " by the judgment of his peers , or the law of the land . " To touch life , you must have a grand jury to present , a petit jury to indict , a judge to condemn , and a sheriff to execute .
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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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