Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 páginas |
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... whole world , judging by past experience , said must inevitably shatter the republic to fragments , and yet , like a gallant ship in full sail , it has run down the terrible obstacle , and gone on triumphant , and is this day stronger ...
... whole world , judging by past experience , said must inevitably shatter the republic to fragments , and yet , like a gallant ship in full sail , it has run down the terrible obstacle , and gone on triumphant , and is this day stronger ...
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... whole life would not amount to more than six months . At nineteen he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand on a flat - boat , and on his re- turn he split the timber for a log cabin and built it , and enclosed ten acres of land ...
... whole life would not amount to more than six months . At nineteen he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand on a flat - boat , and on his re- turn he split the timber for a log cabin and built it , and enclosed ten acres of land ...
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... whole world of men and things as a side spectator , and the interest of the drama of life thus silently seen at first hand , was to him infinite- ly more interesting than any second hand imitation . " My life is story enough , " once ...
... whole world of men and things as a side spectator , and the interest of the drama of life thus silently seen at first hand , was to him infinite- ly more interesting than any second hand imitation . " My life is story enough , " once ...
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... whole nature inclined him to be a harmonizer of conflicting parties , rather than a committed combatant on either side . He was firmly and from principle an enemy to slavery , but the ground he occupied in Congress was in some respects ...
... whole nature inclined him to be a harmonizer of conflicting parties , rather than a committed combatant on either side . He was firmly and from principle an enemy to slavery , but the ground he occupied in Congress was in some respects ...
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... whole country . Henceforth he was all his life a public man ; first a prominent champion in the decisively impor- tant state of Illinois , and afterwards the standard bear- er and the martyr of Freedom in America . That contest in ...
... whole country . Henceforth he was all his life a public man ; first a prominent champion in the decisively impor- tant state of Illinois , and afterwards the standard bear- er and the martyr of Freedom in America . That contest in ...
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,...