 | David W. Bartlett - 1855 - 440 pages
...OF JULY. Fellow-citizens, pardon me ; allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day 1 What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...in that declaration of independence, extended to us 1 and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 512 pages
...1852. FELLOW-CITIZENS — Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day ? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us ? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 492 pages
...1852. FELLOW-CITIZENS — Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to usf and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - 1855 - 408 pages
...FOURTH OF JULY. Fellow-citizens, pardon me; allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day ? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence 1 Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied, in that declaration... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 640 pages
..." FELLOW-CITIZENS : — Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day ? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us ? and am I, therefore, called upon to •bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | Peter Thomas Stanford - 1897 - 298 pages
..."Fellow Citizens : — Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day ? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...that declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - 1918 - 222 pages
...interrogation and biblical phrase: Pardon me, and allow me to ask, Why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...in that Declaration of Independence extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to * "Frederick... | |
 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - 1920 - 332 pages
...OF JULY * Fellow Citieena: Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak her* today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...that declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | William L. Andrews - 1988 - 372 pages
...he inquired in tones of mock innocence, "allow me to ask, why am 1 called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess... | |
 | Gary J. Jacobsohn - 1986 - 196 pages
...republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie."2 And he asked: "What have I, or those I represent, to do with your...political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us?"3 It is not surprising that Douglass responds to his... | |
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What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our... 
