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" I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I 'was never mean enough to despise any man because he was ignorant, or because he was poor, or because he was black. "
The Life of John A. Andrew: Governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1865 - Page 46
by Henry Greenleaf Pearson - 1904
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The North American Review, Volume 106

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1868 - 766 pages
...Vineyard. It was the same speech in which he made the remark, since so often quoted : — " I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but...or because he was poor, or because he was black." Referring to slavery, he said : — " I have never believed it to be possible that this controversy...
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Sermons Preached at the Annual Election

1856 - 526 pages
...man who could say, " I know not what record of sin may await me in another world. But this* I know; I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was ignorant, nor because he was poor, nor because he was black." Massachusetts' needed such a man, in such a crisis....
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Massachusetts in the Rebellion: A Record of the Historical Position of the ...

Phineas Camp Headley - Massachusetts - 1866 - 948 pages
...man who could say, " I know not what record of sin may await me in another world ; but this I know : I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was ignorant, nor because he was poor, nor because he was black." Massachusetts needed such a man in such a crisis....
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Eulogy on John Albion Andrew

Edwin Percy Whipple - Governors - 1867 - 38 pages
...airs of condescension to any. " I know not," he once said, " what record of sin awaits me in the next world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise a man because he was poor, or because he was ignorant, or because he was black." Sir Frederic Bruce,...
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Discourse Delivered Before the New-England Historic-genealogical Society ...

Elias Nason - Governors - 1868 - 92 pages
...below him He used as creatures of another place." And when he said, in 1862, Aug. 10, " I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world ;...or because he was poor, or because he was black," the quick response of the vast audience was, "Those words are true."* He was an incorruptible patriot....
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The Friend, Volume 3

Society of Friends - 1868 - 416 pages
...might refer, it word* were needed when the whole life proclaims it, to his own words, — " I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but...any man because he was ignorant or because he was black!" You all know the main facts of his life: born fortynine years ago, in Maine, he studied quietly...
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Sketch of the Official Life of John A. Andrew

Albert Gallatin Browne - Governors - 1868 - 238 pages
...England would pour out to obey your call. Always ready to do my utmost, I remain most faithfully," etc. the other world, but this I know, that I was never...or because he was poor, or because he was black." Referring to slavery, he said : — " " I have never believed it to be possible that this controversy...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 36

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1868 - 844 pages
...nigger-teachers enough on board to damn any boat,' he looked as I imagine he might when he said, ' I never was mean enough to despise any man because he was ignorant,...or because he was poor, or because he was black.' He then exclaimed : ' Prosecute them ! I hope you will prosecute. I will do it for you.' Then he asked...
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Success and Its Conditions

Edwin Percy Whipple - Success - 1871 - 356 pages
...airs of condescension to any. " I know not," he once said, " what record of sin awaits me in the next world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise a man because he was poor, or because he was ignorant, or because he was black." Sir Frederic Bruce,...
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Journal of the Senate

Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - Massachusetts - 1871 - 550 pages
...pedestal of the statue of John A. Andrew in the Andrew! Doric hall, the following words : — "I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I do know, that I never was so mean as to despise any man because he was. poor, because he was ignorant,...
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