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_ ... I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON_, but Napoleon made his way to empire _over broken oaths and through a sea of blood._ This man never broke his word. "No Retaliation" was his great motto and the rule of his life; _AND THE LAST WORDS UTTERED TO HIS SON IN FRANCE WERE THESE: "My boy, you will one day go back to Santo Domingo; forget that France murdered your father." I WOULD CALL HIM CROMWELL,_ but Cromwell _was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I WOULD CALL HIM WASHINGTON,_ but the great Virginian _held slaves. THIS MAN RISKED HIS EMPIRE rather than permit the slave-trade in the humblest village of his dominions._
_YOU THINK ME A FANATIC TO-NIGHT,_ for you read history, _not with your eyes, BUT WITH YOUR PREJUDICES._ But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of History will put _PHOCION for the Greek,_ and _BRUTUS for the Roman, HAMPDEN for England, LAFAYETTE for France,_ choose _WASHINGTON as the bright, consummate flower of our EARLIER civilization, AND JOHN BROWN the ripe fruit of our NOONDAY,_ then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of _THE SOLDIER, THE STATESMAN, THE MARTYR, TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE._
--Wendell Phillips, _Toussaint l'Ouverture_.
Drill on the following selections for change of pitch: Beecher's "Abraham Lincoln," p. 76; Seward's "Irrepressible Conflict," p. 67; Everett's "History of Liberty," p. 78; Grady's "The Race Problem," p. 36; and Beveridge's "Pass Prosperity Around," p. 470.
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