great quote i found

[pansypoo53219]

got a set of 1906 The World's Famous Orations, edited by William Jennings Bryan.

EVERETT 1835-
nor was it only in this that we discern their disinterestedness, their heroic forgetfulness of self. not only was the independence for which they struggled a great + adventurous, of which they were to encounter the risk + ohers to enjoy the benefits, but the oppressions which roused them had assumed in their day no worse form than that of a pernicious principle. no tolerable acts of oppression had ground them to dust. they were not slaves rising in desperation from beneath the agonies of the lash, but free men, snuffling from afar "the tainted gale of tyranny".

oh snap.

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