Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and FreedomUniversity Press of America, 1982 - 221 pages |
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... 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 which I lived . We ...
... 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 which I lived . We ...
Page 73
... streets of a revolutionary epoch . It is a very easy thing to sit down and read the history ; it is a very easy thing to imagine what we would have done — it is a very different thing to strike the first blow . It is a very hard thing ...
... streets of a revolutionary epoch . It is a very easy thing to sit down and read the history ; it is a very easy thing to imagine what we would have done — it is a very different thing to strike the first blow . It is a very hard thing ...
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... streets , which were the pavements that thrilled under their foot- steps ? What walls did they salute as the regimental flags floated by to Gettysburg and Antietam ? These ! Our boys carried down to the battlefields the memory of State ...
... streets , which were the pavements that thrilled under their foot- steps ? What walls did they salute as the regimental flags floated by to Gettysburg and Antietam ? These ! Our boys carried down to the battlefields the memory of State ...
Contents
In Defense of Lovejoy | 1 |
The Boston Mob | 10 |
The Right of Petition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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