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After spending several pages describing the breakdown of
regular order in the passage of last year's bankruptcy bill, they
note acerbically that one of the bill's problems was
"atrocious drafting. Wilson notes acerbically its effect on
scholarship and teaching when he points out that "the faculties of
higher education around the world are a congeries of experts. Brown transcribes some of these laws in his Civil War history,
commenting acerbically on what he views as their absolute hypocrisy:
"And yet Connecticut, with her proscription of the negro, and
receiving their aid in fighting her battles, retains her negro
'black laws' upon her statutebook by a vote of more than six
thousand" (Brown, Negro 143). |
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