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The Big Boxcar

Alfred Maund - Fiction - 1999 - 216 pages
...Maund: Had I interceded in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved . . . had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, to the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, sister, wife or...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case — had I so interfered in hehalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in hehalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife or children, or any of...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...fairly proved — for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case — Had I so interfered...class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this Court would have deemed it an act worthy...
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from ...

David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...fairly proved, — for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case, — had I so interfered...class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, // would have been all right. Every man in this Court would have deemed it an act worthy...
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Emerson's Antislavery Writings

Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 1995 - 292 pages
...What magnanimity, and what innocent pleading, as of childhood. You remember his words — "If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their friends, parents, wives or children, it would all have been right. No man in this court...
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L.M. Alcott: Signature of Reform

Madeleine B. Stern - History - 2002 - 244 pages
.... . . Had I interfered in the matter which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved . . . had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, or the so-called great . . . and suffered and sacrif1ced, what I have in this interference, it would...
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Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition

Judith Nies - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 372 pages
...dream and she completely understood John Brown's words of explanation at his trial: Had I so intervened in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great . . . and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this [act], it would have been all right. ... I believe...
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Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...been fairly proved — for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the wimesses who have testified in this case — had I so interfered...any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what 1 have in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this Court would have deemed...
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Voices of a People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove - History - 2011 - 667 pages
...fairly proved — (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered...class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right, and every man in this Court would have deemed it an act...
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known

Howard Zinn - History - 2009 - 100 pages
...addresses the court that ordered his hanging. JOHN BROWN Had I interfered in the manner, which I admit, had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful,...so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... or father, mother, brother, sister, wife or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed...
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