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... AGITATION Wendell Phillips was the first and greatest American agitator . He chose the part from a deliberate and profound conviction . In a free country all real progress , he believed , must be brought about by agitation . He accepted ...
... AGITATION Wendell Phillips was the first and greatest American agitator . He chose the part from a deliberate and profound conviction . In a free country all real progress , he believed , must be brought about by agitation . He accepted ...
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... Agitation was and is the duty of the hour . " Each man here , in fact , holds his property and his life dependent on the constant presence of an agitation like this of anti - slavery . Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty ; power ...
... Agitation was and is the duty of the hour . " Each man here , in fact , holds his property and his life dependent on the constant presence of an agitation like this of anti - slavery . Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty ; power ...
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... agitation and no Civil War . " ( Ibid . , pp . 2-3 . ) Besides the author feels that the great mass of Re- publicans were unalterably opposed to compromise . Not more than a hundred thousand of the 1,866,000 voters who supported Lincoln ...
... agitation and no Civil War . " ( Ibid . , pp . 2-3 . ) Besides the author feels that the great mass of Re- publicans were unalterably opposed to compromise . Not more than a hundred thousand of the 1,866,000 voters who supported Lincoln ...
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The Revolutionary Tradition | 13 |
A New England Boyhood | 18 |
Harvard Days | 26 |
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