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Podcast #10 – Abraham Lincoln’s Peoria Speech
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
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Historians generally agree that Lincoln’s Peoria speech was among the most able he ever delivered. “It is a landmark in his career,” wrote Nathaniel Wright Stephenson. “It …lays the abiding foundation of everything he thought thereafter. In this great speech, the end of his novitiate, he rings the changes on the white man’s charter of liberty.”
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Podcast #7 – Father Augustine Tolton
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
When the time came for Augustine to be ordained, the cardinal prefect of the congregation announced that if the Americans had never seen a black priest, it was now time for them to see one. After his ordination on April 24, 1886, Father Tolton was sent home to Quincy, Illinois, where he had a triumphal return.
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