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"Slave: What have you done, what can you do for me, that will compensate for the liberty which you have taken away?"
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The Columbian Orator
The Columbian Orator is a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues collected and written by Caleb Bingham. First published in May 1797, it includes speeches by Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, some imagined speeches by historical figures such as Cato the Younger and Socrates, and writings by Hugh Blair, Paulus Emilius, David Everett, James Hervey, Jonathan Mason, Thomas Muir, J
"Slave: What have you done, what can you do for me, that will compensate for the liberty which you have taken away?"
"To scatter the clouds of ignorance and error from the atmosphere of reason; to remove the film of prejudice from the mental eye; and thus to irradiate the benighted mind with the cheering beams of truth, is at once the business and the glory of eloquence."