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Speech of Robert Wickliffe, in Reply to the REV. R. J. Breckenridge; Delivered in the Court House, in Lexington, on Monday, the 9th November, 1840

Speech of Robert Wickliffe, in Reply to the REV. R. J. Breckenridge; Delivered in the Court House, in Lexington, on Monday, the 9th November, 1840


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...them of the entire earnings of their own labor, except only so much as is necessary to continue labor itself, by continuing healthful existence; thus committing clear robbery;--second, to reduce them le universal concupinage, 4cc. What eare I whether my pockets are picked, or the proceeds of my labor taken from me? What matter whether my horse is stolen, or the value of him, ia my labor, be.taken from me? Do we talk of violating rights of masters, and depriving them of their property in their slaves; and will some one tell us if there be any thing in which a man has or can have so perfect a right of property as in his own limbs, bones, and sinews? Out upon such folly! The man who cannot see that involuntary domestic slavery, as it exists among us, is founded upon the principle ef taking by force that which is anothers, has simply no moral sense!" There, fellow citizens, is abolition enough! But our object is more immediately to show that what we have said Is true, and what Mr. Breckenridge has said is utterly untrue, in every particular-The gentleman has again and again charged me with abusing himself and his church. This I deny. You were, many of you, present, and heard my speech as delivered here, and are my witnesses that I did not, in all 1 said, utter one discourteous or abusive word of Mr. Breckenridge or of his church. TSe gentleman has read and misread my speech, to find a single word or sentence either discourteous or abusive; and after all his false reading, I deny that he was able to find in that speech, a single expression disrespectful, much less abusive, of him or his church. He has boldly charged that the speech, as to him and his church, was a tissue both of falsehood and abuse, without attempting to prove the assertion by any other met...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236220950
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236220951
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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