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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 20 (search)
, to see millions of its subjects i-arms, and have no right to break the fetters which they are forging into swords? No; the war power of the government can sweep this institution into the Gulf. [Cheers.] Ever since 1842, that statesman-like claim and warring of the North has been on record, spoken by the lips of her wisest son. [Applause.] When the South cannonaded Fort Sumter the bones of Adams stirred in his coffin. [Cheers.] And you might have heard him, from that granite grave at Quincy, proclaim to the nation: The hour has struck! Seize the thunderbolt God has forged for you, and annihilate the system which has troubled your peace for seventy years! [Cheers.] Do not say this is a cold-blooded suggestion. I hardly ever knew slavery go down in any other circumstances. Only once, in the broad sweep of the world's history, was any nation lifted so high that she could stretch her imperial hand across the Atlantic, and lift by one peaceful word a million of slaves into liber