This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon.... Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin - Página 181 por William Dean Howells - 1860 - 390 páginas Visualização integral -
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