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I was not in the street as one of the mob , but as a spectator . I had come down from my office in Court Street to see what the excitement was . I did not un- derstand antislavery then ; that is , I did not understand the country in ...
I was not in the street as one of the mob , but as a spectator . I had come down from my office in Court Street to see what the excitement was . I did not un- derstand antislavery then ; that is , I did not understand the country in ...
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The sultan dared to murder his Janizaries only when the streets came to hate them as much as he did . The czar , at the head of a government whose constitution knows no check but poison and the dagger , yet feels the pressure of public ...
The sultan dared to murder his Janizaries only when the streets came to hate them as much as he did . The czar , at the head of a government whose constitution knows no check but poison and the dagger , yet feels the pressure of public ...
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prose , without one tittle of exaggeration , without one fond con- ceit borrowed from our kindred with the actors or from our birth in these streets - if that is the sober record - with how much pride , with what a thrill , with what ...
prose , without one tittle of exaggeration , without one fond con- ceit borrowed from our kindred with the actors or from our birth in these streets - if that is the sober record - with how much pride , with what a thrill , with what ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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