 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 1152 pages
...present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, every thing that serves to perpetuate iiluvcry — the great sin and shame... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1883 - 648 pages
...present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name ot humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 436 pages
...present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare call in question and denounce with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate... | |
 | Peter Thomas Stanford - 1897 - 298 pages
...of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the... | |
 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - 1920 - 332 pages
...present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - 1966 - 420 pages
...conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." "What the Black Man Wants" was suggested by the attitude of those even in the North who, like General... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 pages
...present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pages
...the American jeremiad. He professes a profound faith in the national founding documents and invokes "the name of the constitution and the bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon" to "dare to call in question and to denounce . . . everything that serves to perpetuate slavery—... | |
 | Steven Kautz, Steven J. Kautz - 1995 - 252 pages
...of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence." And Douglass, in a Fourth of July oration: "I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, ... in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 pages
...present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of... | |
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty... 
