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Otherwise you furnish the protection which is given to the lamb when he is commended to the wolf.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “Otherwise you furnish the protection which is given to the lamb when he is commended to the wolf.”
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Boutwell uses a metaphor to illustrate the dangers of misplaced trust in a treacherous situation.
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By the Ordinance of 1787, freedom and full right to self-government were made secure to the coming millions who were to occupy the States northwest of the River Ohio.
Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
If the negroes in America are entitled to freedom from a state of subserviency, are not the colored races in the Philippines entitled to freedom, and that whether they are under the Constitution or beyond its jurisdiction?
They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
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