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Page 77
... emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardi- ness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them — not grudgingly , but fully and ...
... emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardi- ness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them — not grudgingly , but fully and ...
Page 86
... emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly . On the question of liberty as a prin- ciple , we are not what we have been . When we were the political slaves of King George , and ...
... emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly . On the question of liberty as a prin- ciple , we are not what we have been . When we were the political slaves of King George , and ...
Page 97
... emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures held the unquestioned power to abolish slavery in their respective States ...
... emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures held the unquestioned power to abolish slavery in their respective States ...
Page 115
... emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they must penetrate the ...
... emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they must penetrate the ...
Page 162
... emancipation is in the Federal Government . He spoke of Virginia ; and , as to the power of emancipation , I speak of the slaveholding States only . The Federal Gov- ernment , however , as we insist , has the 162 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... emancipation is in the Federal Government . He spoke of Virginia ; and , as to the power of emancipation , I speak of the slaveholding States only . The Federal Gov- ernment , however , as we insist , has the 162 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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