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Interview: Diana Schaub on Lincoln's Lyceum Address | The New Thinkery Ep. 84

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Mob Rule

There are two, two, two examples of mob rule that he talks about specifically. He gives two different accounts of what happens in those instances. The first instance began with the hangings of gamblers and spread to negroes who were suspected of being involved in some sort of slave insurrection. And then spread, he says, just strangers, you know, travelling into the state and who became a suspect. So we have time toof course, tals of this. I think it'd be silly to maybe figure out what he is to hear. But like just a beautiful mess, a beautiful sentence.

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