On the record
The restrictions which keep it from the slave will keep it from the whites, excepting, always, the few who live at the top.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “The restrictions which keep it from the slave will keep it from the whites, excepting, always, the few who live at the…”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher warns that the same restrictions preventing education for slaves also affect poor whites.
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Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.
If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!
And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.