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where and otherwise , will do his best to abolish this " all - compre- hending wickedness of slavery , in which every wrong and every crime has its natural home , " then he should have plainly said so . Otherwise , his disclaimer is ...
where and otherwise , will do his best to abolish this " all - compre- hending wickedness of slavery , in which every wrong and every crime has its natural home , " then he should have plainly said so . Otherwise , his disclaimer is ...
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Clay , in 1839 , makes a speech for the Presidency , in which he says that to discuss the subject of slavery is moral treason , and that no man has a right to introduce the subject into Congress . Mr. Benton , in 1844 , laid down his ...
Clay , in 1839 , makes a speech for the Presidency , in which he says that to discuss the subject of slavery is moral treason , and that no man has a right to introduce the subject into Congress . Mr. Benton , in 1844 , laid down his ...
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more rather than be a slave ; and thence he deduces that the colored race , which suffers slavery here , is not emphatically dis- tinguished for courage . I take issue on that statement . There is no race in the world that has not been ...
more rather than be a slave ; and thence he deduces that the colored race , which suffers slavery here , is not emphatically dis- tinguished for courage . I take issue on that statement . There is no race in the world that has not been ...
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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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