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R. W. Emerson tried to address the people ; but his voice was completely drowned . In the afternoon meeting the uproar was greater than it had been in the forenoon . The mob cheered and hurrahed for the Union , and for Edward Everett ...
R. W. Emerson tried to address the people ; but his voice was completely drowned . In the afternoon meeting the uproar was greater than it had been in the forenoon . The mob cheered and hurrahed for the Union , and for Edward Everett ...
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No matter what dress we assumed , the voice was ever " the voice of Jacob . " Above all , Phillips had no time for evasions . Even his less polemical lectures turned light on principles and social circum- stances .
No matter what dress we assumed , the voice was ever " the voice of Jacob . " Above all , Phillips had no time for evasions . Even his less polemical lectures turned light on principles and social circum- stances .
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Thirty millions of Frenchmen today hold a voice in the government , because the cry against lessening their labors was not heeded . The same cry has been raised here ; it has been said that the workman will not work unless you starve ...
Thirty millions of Frenchmen today hold a voice in the government , because the cry against lessening their labors was not heeded . The same cry has been raised here ; it has been said that the workman will not work unless you starve ...
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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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