Meaning of free-dumb | Babel Free

Examples

“Those who are familiar with the reverberations of the report of artillery at West Point, can readily believe that a similar echo among the mountains in this vicinity, from like cause, might be deemed by the credulous a voice from the dwelling of the Old Man, shouting in earnest tone the political battle-cry of the New-Hampshire electors, “Fremont and free-dumb.””

“No one expects from such a man as Greeley any thing but hostility to the Constitution of our country.—And his paper is all that is left of the formidable “Herald, Tribune and Times,” which were deluging the country last fall with Fremont and free-dumb.”

“Freedom of speech in the Secession-land is free-dumb of speech.”

“Tondapameibomenos, Prosephe, and Podasokus (three Thessalians, who would be these aliens if they weren’t these natives:—calumnious conspirators, dreadful democrats, members of several secret societies, who demand the right of free speaking in a state of free-dumb..”

“Dear Town Talk—I sent you a toast for the next Press dinner: The free-dumb of the Press—liberty to be silent.”

“Thus Free-dumb now so seldom wakes, / The only throb she gives, / Is when some Sharp indignant squeaks, / To show that still he lives!”

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