The Democratic Spirit: A Collection of American Writings from the Earliest Times to the Present DayBernard Smith A. A. Knopf, 1941 - 927 pages |
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Page 212
... DEATH OF LOVEJOY ] We have received by this morning's mail a slip from the Missouri Argus , printed at St. Louis , containing intelligence which has filled us with surprise and horror . A mob , in making an attack upon an abolition ...
... DEATH OF LOVEJOY ] We have received by this morning's mail a slip from the Missouri Argus , printed at St. Louis , containing intelligence which has filled us with surprise and horror . A mob , in making an attack upon an abolition ...
Page 508
... death for mercy and refuge , the gentle Church condemned him to eternal fire , the gentle law buried him at midnight ... death upon ten thousand persons , the other upon a hundred millions ; but our shudders are all for the " horrors ...
... death for mercy and refuge , the gentle Church condemned him to eternal fire , the gentle law buried him at midnight ... death upon ten thousand persons , the other upon a hundred millions ; but our shudders are all for the " horrors ...
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... death . Much I thought of you when I was lying in the death house - the singing , the kind tender voices of the children from the playground , where there was all the life and the joy of liberty - just one step from the wall which ...
... death . Much I thought of you when I was lying in the death house - the singing , the kind tender voices of the children from the playground , where there was all the life and the joy of liberty - just one step from the wall which ...
Contents
ROGER WILLIAMS 1603?1683 | 5 |
BACONS MAN 1676 | 13 |
JOHN WISE 16521725 | 20 |
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