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... if you choose, all the crimes in the criminal calendar, but never the dark,
atrocious and damning sin of treason. My manhood is immaculate against it. After
my God, I love my country most—her freedom-breathing inspirations—the
memOry of ...
... if you choose, all the crimes in the criminal calendar, but never the dark,
atrocious and damning sin of treason. My manhood is immaculate against it. After
my God, I love my country most—her freedom-breathing inspirations—the
memOry of ...
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Monroe, the Mayor of the city, given up to the worst features of slaveocratic law
was the personification of Thuggery. A man of no moral principle or intellectual
culture, he was just the magistrate required to legalize the crimes of a people
given ...
Monroe, the Mayor of the city, given up to the worst features of slaveocratic law
was the personification of Thuggery. A man of no moral principle or intellectual
culture, he was just the magistrate required to legalize the crimes of a people
given ...
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In his official capacity, he always had an excuse for crime, a smile for a traitor and
a word of encouragement for his companions in rebellion. It was a class of men
like Monroe and Adams, that the multitude followed. They possessed the true ...
In his official capacity, he always had an excuse for crime, a smile for a traitor and
a word of encouragement for his companions in rebellion. It was a class of men
like Monroe and Adams, that the multitude followed. They possessed the true ...
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The charge of treason, said he, when it has a just foundation is a fatal one, in my
estimation, to personal character. In regard to that 'crime of crimes,” I must not act
upon suspicion, but upon evidence.” CHAPTER VIII. THE CHURCHES OF NEW ...
The charge of treason, said he, when it has a just foundation is a fatal one, in my
estimation, to personal character. In regard to that 'crime of crimes,” I must not act
upon suspicion, but upon evidence.” CHAPTER VIII. THE CHURCHES OF NEW ...
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It was necessary to strike the Church from its foundation by the earthquake
advance of reform. It required men of the force of a Luther or a Cromwell, to blot
out the disgraceful crimes which stained their statute books. Slavery had
enveloped ...
It was necessary to strike the Church from its foundation by the earthquake
advance of reform. It required men of the force of a Luther or a Cromwell, to blot
out the disgraceful crimes which stained their statute books. Slavery had
enveloped ...
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