Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 páginas |
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Página xii
... Holds it for him - Mr . Colfax Renominated Unanimously - His Remarkable Suc- cess in his own District - Useful Labors in Post Office Committee - Early for Lincoln for President - Mr . Colfax urged for Post Master General - His ...
... Holds it for him - Mr . Colfax Renominated Unanimously - His Remarkable Suc- cess in his own District - Useful Labors in Post Office Committee - Early for Lincoln for President - Mr . Colfax urged for Post Master General - His ...
Página 21
... hold heartily on the wrong side . He never engaged in it , knowingly ; if a man desired to re- tain him whose cause was bad , he declined , and told the applicant not to go to law . A lady once came to him to have him prosecute a claim ...
... hold heartily on the wrong side . He never engaged in it , knowingly ; if a man desired to re- tain him whose cause was bad , he declined , and told the applicant not to go to law . A lady once came to him to have him prosecute a claim ...
Página 24
... hold of the heart of the evidence for the state- that of the chief witness . He pointed out first one discrepancy , and then another , and then another . He came at last to that part of the evidence where this principal witness had ...
... hold of the heart of the evidence for the state- that of the chief witness . He pointed out first one discrepancy , and then another , and then another . He came at last to that part of the evidence where this principal witness had ...
Página 34
... hold over men and being turned out of society ? The pure moral aspects of political questions , he flouted and scoffed at as unworthy the attention of a practical politician . The rights of human beings , the eternal laws of rectitude ...
... hold over men and being turned out of society ? The pure moral aspects of political questions , he flouted and scoffed at as unworthy the attention of a practical politician . The rights of human beings , the eternal laws of rectitude ...
Página 45
... hold of by their greedy hands . And as they have been gazing upon this attract- ive picture so long , they cannot , in the little distraction that has taken place in the party , bring themselves to give up the charming hope ; but with ...
... hold of by their greedy hands . And as they have been gazing upon this attract- ive picture so long , they cannot , in the little distraction that has taken place in the party , bring themselves to give up the charming hope ; but with ...
Términos y frases comunes
38th Congress abolitionists Abraham Lincoln anti-slavery army battle BATTLE OF SHILOH became blood Boston called campaign cause character Charles Sumner Chase Christian church citizens Colfax colored command constitution course debates defend Douglas Douglass duty election emancipation father feeling fight force Fort Duncan Frederick Douglass friends fugitive slave fugitive slave law Garrison Governor Grant Greeley hand heart Henry Wilson honor human Illinois Increase Sumner justice labor lawyer liberty Lincoln living Massachusetts master ment military mind moral mother nation negro never Ohio once paper party political poor President principle rebel rebellion Schuyler Colfax Senate sentiment Sheridan Sherman side slaveholders slavery society solemn South southern speech Stanton Sumner things thought tion took Union Union army United Vicksburg VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN victory vigorous vote Washington Whig Whig party whole words young
Pasajes populares
Página 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 329 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Página 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Página 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Página 41 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
Página 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Página 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Página 107 - You lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain: Reckless, so it could point its paragraph,...