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... institution owes the country this difference , as the amount of the damage the land has sustained . Our claim is $ 7,544,148,825 . It will not avail to parley or prevaricate ; our claim is just and overdue ; your criminal extrava- gance ...
... institution owes the country this difference , as the amount of the damage the land has sustained . Our claim is $ 7,544,148,825 . It will not avail to parley or prevaricate ; our claim is just and overdue ; your criminal extrava- gance ...
Page 11
... institution among us , deserve to be at once reduced to a parallel with the basest criminals that now lie fettered in the cells of our public prisons . Were it possible to gather into four equal gangs of licensed robbers , slaveowners ...
... institution among us , deserve to be at once reduced to a parallel with the basest criminals that now lie fettered in the cells of our public prisons . Were it possible to gather into four equal gangs of licensed robbers , slaveowners ...
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... institutions ' which gathers the Southern host at Manassas Gap . " It is , ' says Mr. Bernal Osborne , quoting Wil- liam Cobbett's prophecy , now thirty years old , ' because the heavy import duties on British goods are neither more nor ...
... institutions ' which gathers the Southern host at Manassas Gap . " It is , ' says Mr. Bernal Osborne , quoting Wil- liam Cobbett's prophecy , now thirty years old , ' because the heavy import duties on British goods are neither more nor ...
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... institution operates as a great workhouse , where the naturally idle are compelled to contribute their share to the services of mankind . " " The highest rewards , political and social , have been in the island of Jamaica vainly held ...
... institution operates as a great workhouse , where the naturally idle are compelled to contribute their share to the services of mankind . " " The highest rewards , political and social , have been in the island of Jamaica vainly held ...
Page 38
... institutions , sent West , and " bound out " to farmers for some years . Thus , on a small scale , goes on at the North what is found so generally necessary at the South . But the South does not seek to force , or 38 SLAVERY AS IT EXISTS .
... institutions , sent West , and " bound out " to farmers for some years . Thus , on a small scale , goes on at the North what is found so generally necessary at the South . But the South does not seek to force , or 38 SLAVERY AS IT EXISTS .
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