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Similar too is the correct reasoning in regard to the burning of the negro at St. Louis . He had forfeited his life by the perpetration of an outrageous murder upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city , and had ...
Similar too is the correct reasoning in regard to the burning of the negro at St. Louis . He had forfeited his life by the perpetration of an outrageous murder upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city , and had ...
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But while you thus require me to deny the humanity of the negro , I wish to ask whether you of the South , yourselves , have ever been willing to do as much ? It is kindly provided that of all those who come into the world only a small ...
But while you thus require me to deny the humanity of the negro , I wish to ask whether you of the South , yourselves , have ever been willing to do as much ? It is kindly provided that of all those who come into the world only a small ...
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These sympathies in the bosoms of the Southern people manifest , in many ways , their sense of the wrong of slavery , and their consciousness that , after all , there is humanity in the negro . If they deny this , let me address them a ...
These sympathies in the bosoms of the Southern people manifest , in many ways , their sense of the wrong of slavery , and their consciousness that , after all , there is humanity in the negro . If they deny this , let me address them a ...
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In all these cases it is your sense of justice and human sympathy continually telling you that the poor negro has some natural right to himself - that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings , contempt , and ...
In all these cases it is your sense of justice and human sympathy continually telling you that the poor negro has some natural right to himself - that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings , contempt , and ...
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Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such application depends upon whether a negro is not or is a man . If he is not a man , in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self - government do just what he pleases with ...
Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such application depends upon whether a negro is not or is a man . If he is not a man , in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self - government do just what he pleases with ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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