Sections 1 VAST CHANGES. 2 I felt I had reached the end of the noblest and best part of my life; my school was broken… 3 I had, sometime before, prepared a lecture on “Self-made men,” 4 Written orations had not been in my line. 5 Here, then, was a new vocation before me, full of advantages, mentally and pecuniarily. 6 He was in a word literally turned loose naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky. 7 [Illustration: Wendell Phillips] The demand for the ballot was such a vast advance upon the… 8 These reasons against the measure which were supposed to be unanswerable, were in some sense… 9 And now while I am not blind to the evils which have thus far attended the enfranchisement… 10 In this achievement, an interview with President Andrew Johnson, on the 7th of February,… 11 They divided both to conquer each. 12 WASHINGTON, February 7th, 1866. 13 “For these and other reasons the undersigned respectfully pray that the amendment to the… 14 The policy foreshadowed by Andrew Johnson (who, by the grace of the assassin’s bullet, was… 15 When the train on which I was going to the convention reached Harrisburgh, it met and was… 16 I listened very attentively to this address, uttering no word during its delivery; but when… 17 The members of the convention were to walk two abreast, and as I was the only colored member… 18 During the passage of the procession, as we were marching through Chestnut street, an… 19 Eager to know if my kinsfolk still lived, and what was their condition, I made my way to the… 20 I was somewhat disconcerted when I was ushered into the large parlors occupied by about… 21 If any reader of this part of my life shall see in it the evidence of a want of manly… 22 But the friends of this measure were not to be out-generaled and suppressed in this way, and…
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