Life of Walter Harriman: With Selections from His Speeches and WritingsHoughton, Mifflin, 1888 - 385 páginas |
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... capital punishment . Not many years later , the hanging of the insane or half - idiotic boy , Abraham Prescott , at Hopkinton , with its unseemly precedent and attendant circumstances , shocked his feelings , and helped to intensify 18 ...
... capital punishment . Not many years later , the hanging of the insane or half - idiotic boy , Abraham Prescott , at Hopkinton , with its unseemly precedent and attendant circumstances , shocked his feelings , and helped to intensify 18 ...
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... capital traveling companion . " He returned to New Jersey , and , yielding to the impor- tunity of his friend Campbell , took a school at a place then called Camptown , now Irvington , three miles from Newark . It was a bright and ...
... capital traveling companion . " He returned to New Jersey , and , yielding to the impor- tunity of his friend Campbell , took a school at a place then called Camptown , now Irvington , three miles from Newark . It was a bright and ...
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... capital pun- ishment , which lasted two nights . Though no longer a teacher , he did not let his interest in education flag , but rendered efficient service as the superintending school com- mittee of the town . This was the only office ...
... capital pun- ishment , which lasted two nights . Though no longer a teacher , he did not let his interest in education flag , but rendered efficient service as the superintending school com- mittee of the town . This was the only office ...
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... capital punishment , upon which he had thought and reasoned much , came up in two forms . It was a subject upon which he had strong convictions ; and he made the most of this opportunity to manifest a relentless , practical opposition ...
... capital punishment , upon which he had thought and reasoned much , came up in two forms . It was a subject upon which he had strong convictions ; and he made the most of this opportunity to manifest a relentless , practical opposition ...
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... capital punishment was the passage of an act so far amending the law as to defer the execution of the death- sentence for one year from the time of finding the verdict . Mr. Harriman and other opponents of " judicial strangling " felt ...
... capital punishment was the passage of an act so far amending the law as to defer the execution of the death- sentence for one year from the time of finding the verdict . Mr. Harriman and other opponents of " judicial strangling " felt ...
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Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson applause arms army arrived battle battle of Fredericksburg believe Boston brigade camp campaign candidate capital punishment cause CHAPTER cheerful Colonel Harriman command Concord Congress Convention Corps death Democratic party duty election Eleventh New Hampshire Eleventh regiment eloquent enemy faith February February 28 field fight fire flag Fredericksburg Friday friends front Governor Harriman ground hand heart held hills honor Hopkinton hour House hundred interest John John Harriman June labor land legislature living Manchester March ment miles morning nation never night Ninth nomination o'clock officers Orange Court House orators passed patriotic peace platform political President prison railroad rebel rebellion Republican party sentiment Sinclair slavery soldier South speaker speech stand stood thousand Thursday tion to-day took town treason Union Union army victory vote Walter Harriman Warner words
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Página 115 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 323 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?' An Ode in Imitation of Alctnts WHAT constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride: Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men...
Página 370 - I do not ask, O Lord, that thou shouldst shed Full radiance here ; Give but a ray of peace that I may tread Without a fear. I do not ask my cross to understand, My way to see ; Better in darkness just to feel thy hand, And follow thee. Joy is like restless day ; but peace divine Like quiet night ; Lead me O Lord — till perfect day shall shine — Through Peace to Light.
Página 310 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Página 199 - I am thankful to God for this approval of the people. But while deeply grateful for this mark of their confidence in me, if I know my heart, my gratitude is free from any taint of personal triumph. I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me. It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one...
Página 52 - I wish popularity : but it is that popularity, which follows, not that which is run after; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.
Página 319 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 199 - But the election, along with its incidental and undesirable strife, has done good, too. It has demonstrated that a people's Government can sustain a national election in the midst of a great civil war.
Página 108 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Página 350 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.