The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorical Character and His Great Speech on KansasDayton and Burdick, 1856 - 329 páginas |
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... tyranny more oppressive than any in the annals of the world . As those standing on the mountain - tops first dis- cern the coming beams of morning , let us , from the vantage - ground of liberal institutions , first recognize the ...
... tyranny more oppressive than any in the annals of the world . As those standing on the mountain - tops first dis- cern the coming beams of morning , let us , from the vantage - ground of liberal institutions , first recognize the ...
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... tyranny or lost by neglect . It is immortal , as the soul from which it proceeds . This alone renders all relapse into barbarism impossible , while it af- fords an unquestionable distinction between An- cient and Modern Times . The ...
... tyranny or lost by neglect . It is immortal , as the soul from which it proceeds . This alone renders all relapse into barbarism impossible , while it af- fords an unquestionable distinction between An- cient and Modern Times . The ...
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... tyranny , differing little in hardship and audacity from that which sustained the Bas- tile of France - I mean the Slave Power of the United States . Let not people start at this simili- tude . I intend no unkindness to individual slave ...
... tyranny , differing little in hardship and audacity from that which sustained the Bas- tile of France - I mean the Slave Power of the United States . Let not people start at this simili- tude . I intend no unkindness to individual slave ...
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... tyranny hardly less hateful than that which sustained the Bastile ? - " This combination is unknown to the Constitu- tion ; nay , it exists in defiance of the spirit of that instrument , and of the recorded opinions of its founders ...
... tyranny hardly less hateful than that which sustained the Bastile ? - " This combination is unknown to the Constitu- tion ; nay , it exists in defiance of the spirit of that instrument , and of the recorded opinions of its founders ...
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... tyrannical , till at last it has obtained the control of the government , and caused it to be administered , not in the spirit of Freedom , but in the spirit of Slavery . Yes ! the govern- ment of the United States is now ( let it be ...
... tyrannical , till at last it has obtained the control of the government , and caused it to be administered , not in the spirit of Freedom , but in the spirit of Slavery . Yes ! the govern- ment of the United States is now ( let it be ...
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