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  1. Sep 2017
    1. How unlike the politicians of an hour!

      haha...

    2. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable — and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight.

      He is trying to prepare the people for what he is going to say next, because he know it will only offend them, unless they actually listen.

    3. Friends and Fellow Citizens

      Which group does he include the slaves? Is he trying to make a point that slaves are also citizens?