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Page 84
... negro , let us beware lest we " cancel and tear in pieces " even the white man's charter of freedom . Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust . Let us repurify it . Let us turn and wash it white in the spirit . if not the ...
... negro , let us beware lest we " cancel and tear in pieces " even the white man's charter of freedom . Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust . Let us repurify it . Let us turn and wash it white in the spirit . if not the ...
Page 86
... negro slave in Amer- ica , scarcely less terrible to the contemplation of a free mind , is now as fixed and hopeless of change for the better , as that of the lost souls of the finally impenitent . The Auto- crat of all the Russias will ...
... negro slave in Amer- ica , scarcely less terrible to the contemplation of a free mind , is now as fixed and hopeless of change for the better , as that of the lost souls of the finally impenitent . The Auto- crat of all the Russias will ...
Page 89
... negro taken to Kansas is free ; yet , in utter disregard of this , —in the spirit of vio- lence merely , that beautiful legislature gravely passes a law to hang any man who shall venture to inform a negro of his legal rights . This is ...
... negro taken to Kansas is free ; yet , in utter disregard of this , —in the spirit of vio- lence merely , that beautiful legislature gravely passes a law to hang any man who shall venture to inform a negro of his legal rights . This is ...
Page 96
... negro cannot sue in the United States courts ; and secondly , that Congress can- not prohibit slavery in the Territories . It was made by a divided court - dividing differently on the different points . Judge Douglas does not discuss ...
... negro cannot sue in the United States courts ; and secondly , that Congress can- not prohibit slavery in the Territories . It was made by a divided court - dividing differently on the different points . Judge Douglas does not discuss ...
Page 97
... negro the right of voting , the right has since been taken away , and in a third - New York - it has been greatly abridged ; while it has not been extended , so far as I know , to a single additional State , though the number of the ...
... negro the right of voting , the right has since been taken away , and in a third - New York - it has been greatly abridged ; while it has not been extended , so far as I know , to a single additional State , though the number of the ...
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