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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 55
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an extract pe from an address made under , the roof of John arrived Brown ' s from house the at scaffold North in Elba Yirg , beside inia . the body which had just
his children " I roof feel / , standing honored Thank to God at stand your for knees under such , a such 1 master 1 saw a roof John Coul . Hereafter Brown d we hav buried , you e asked , will —I sat tell a nobler under your
. representative of the Christian North , putting her foot on the accursed system
of will of armed Slavery see against men ? As guarding the time clear passes Virg December , inia and from these sky , her that hours slaves gallows float . , On back and the round into other history it thousands side , , men the
Notices Of Books. 55
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 55
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/55/
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