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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 2 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 2 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The scholar in a republic (1881). (search)
f sour prejudices, flouts universal suffrage with a blasphemy that almost equals its ignorance. See his words: Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ. No democracy ever claimed that the vote of ignorance and crime was as good in any sense as that of wisdom and virtue. It only asis a spice of the scoundrel in most of our literary men. But no exacting level of property qualification for a vote would have saved those stains. In those cases Judas did not come from the unlearned class. Grown gray over history, Macaulay prophesied twenty years ago that soon in these States the poor, worse than another inro the waiting, at last,--Ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice done; For Humanity sweeps onward. Where to-day the martyr stands On the morrow crouches Judas, With the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready, And the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday In silent awe return To glean