“ No intelligent man will ever be convinced that he was any creature of yours. ”
Henry David Thoreau, A Plea For Captain John Brown (1859). copy citation
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Source | A Plea For Captain John Brown |
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| Date | 1859 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2567/2567-h/2567-h.htm |
Context
“I, for one, am not interested to hear you define your position. I don’t know that I ever was, or ever shall be. I think it is mere egotism, or impertinent at this time. Ye needn’t take so much pains to wash your skirts of him. No intelligent man will ever be convinced that he was any creature of yours. He went and came, as he himself informs us, “under the auspices of John Brown and nobody else.” The Republican party does not perceive how many his failure will make to vote more correctly than they would have them.”
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