The Black Hood

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D. Appleton, 1924 - Počet stran: 336

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Strana 149 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Strana 149 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Strana 325 - ... been led to the scaffold. And the voice of an indignant public would have said that he suffered justly for his crime. Let us imagine one of the mutineers in a court of justice, and urging the following excuses to the judge. Judge. — You have been accused of mutiny, and are found guilty ; and now what have you to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced against you?
Strana 50 - She seated herself at the piano and ran her fingers lightly over the keys. He followed, a frown clouding his smooth forehead. "Will you hear me?
Strana 220 - He has the power of life and death over every man, woman and child in the tribe and is answerable to no one.
Strana 101 - He saw a dime on the floor. He picked it up and put it in his pocket.
Strana 126 - He found it next to impossible, ^n spite of the utmost vigilance on the part of his committees, the new Klan had inaugurated a reign of folly and terror unprecedented in the history of the whole Reconstruction saturnalia, y They whipped scalawag politicians night after night and drove them from the county.
Strana 82 - We rose in a night and seized this dangerous weapon. With mask and revolver we hurled our oppressors from power and sent the negro to school where he must stay for a hundred years of training. Order has been restored. Your legislature has been purged of thieves. A new Governor is in your Capitol. The courts of justice are open. Our work is done —
Strana 150 - ... much of the material on the downfall of the Klan which had previously appeared in The Traitor; but this time Dixon took care to make one of his heroes a Christlike Jewish merchant. "Remember this, Nathan...

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