On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It would be a full and fair assertion that the government would neither trifle, or be trifled with any longer.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It would be a full and fair assertion that the government would neither trifle, or be trifled with any longer.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, describing the Emancipation Proclamation as a definitive statement of the government's resolve to no longer tolerate trifling with the issue of slavery.
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