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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
rences of opinion, there is an inherent, essential tendency to the great English principle of fair play at the bottom of our natures. [Loud applause.] The Emperor Nicholas, it is said, ordered his engineers to lay down for him a railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and presently the engineers brought him a large piece of card-paper, on which was laid down, like a snake, the designed path for the iron locomotive between the two capitals. What's that? said Nicholas. That's the best road, waswe turn this way to touch this great city, and to the left to reach that immense mass of people, and to the right again to suit the business of that district. Yes. The Emperor turned the card over, made a new dot for Moscow, and another for St. Petersburg, took a ruler, made a straight line, and said, Build me that road. [Laughter.] But what will become of this depot of trade? of that town? I don't know; they must look out for themselves. [Cheers.] And intelligent democracy says of sla