Abraham Lincoln: An Oration Delivered on Washington's Birthday, 1891Oberlin News Press, 1891 - 37 páginas |
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... brought the coals which were to kindle the altar fires of our civilization from the hearth of our mother city . But we have received fresh fire , also . The Promethean torch of our genius has been kindled from God's light- ning above us ...
... brought the coals which were to kindle the altar fires of our civilization from the hearth of our mother city . But we have received fresh fire , also . The Promethean torch of our genius has been kindled from God's light- ning above us ...
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... brought the horrors of slavery before the people with a pathos which no abolition speaker could equal . To give a crust of bread , or to point out the North Star , was now punishable by law . " The evil days are come , the poor Are made ...
... brought the horrors of slavery before the people with a pathos which no abolition speaker could equal . To give a crust of bread , or to point out the North Star , was now punishable by law . " The evil days are come , the poor Are made ...
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... his life ; but before the second autumn his father brought a new wife from Kentucky - the widow Johnston , and her three children . This step - mother took the little boy into her heart at once , and gave him both sympathy 18.
... his life ; but before the second autumn his father brought a new wife from Kentucky - the widow Johnston , and her three children . This step - mother took the little boy into her heart at once , and gave him both sympathy 18.
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... brought into the family its first library , consisting — in addition to his own mother's bible - of a dictionary , Pilgrim's Progress , Æsop's Fables , Robinson Crusoe , a history of the United States , and a life of Washington . These ...
... brought into the family its first library , consisting — in addition to his own mother's bible - of a dictionary , Pilgrim's Progress , Æsop's Fables , Robinson Crusoe , a history of the United States , and a life of Washington . These ...
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... Lincoln expounded the Constitution , and the American idea , more profoundly , and in words which live in the hearts of the common people , as he stood among the graves at Gettysburg . " Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought ...
... Lincoln expounded the Constitution , and the American idea , more profoundly , and in words which live in the hearts of the common people , as he stood among the graves at Gettysburg . " Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought ...
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abolish slavery Abraham Lincoln Ameri arrest the flames became began bless America Cæsar called Captain Wilkes career of Lincoln civil coln's commemorative day Confederacy Congress Constitution crowned Davis dead death defend Democratic destroy the Union Divine Douglas elected fame fathers have suffered finality foreign friends fugitive slave law gave God bless America God's gradual emancipation guide America hearts heroes Honest Abe Illinois involuntary servitude Jefferson Davis keep America Kentucky land leader liberty lived loyal million Missouri nation never noble North patriotism peace Pericles Pilgrims popular sovereignty praise President rail-splitter rebellion remembered forever revere Richmond save America secession sentiments Seward slave power slave-holders soldiers South Southern speech spirit stand stars and stripes statesman suffered to save task greater territory Thinking slavery threat tory tread triumph Unconditional Surrender Grant UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN victory votes Washington Whig words
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Página 15 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States?
Página 24 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 15 - ... on a question about which all true men do care, such as Union appeals beseeching true Union men to yield to Disunionists ; reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance; such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said, and undo what Washington did.
Página 22 - My Friends: No one, not in my situation, Can appreciate my feeling of sadness At this parting. To this place, And the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, And have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, And one is buried. I now leave Not knowing when or whether ever I may return...
Página 24 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 23 - It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.
Página 15 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Página 33 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Página 17 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 30 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than He has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun? How they pale, Ancient myth and song and tale, In this wonder of our days, When the cruel rod of war Blossoms white with righteous law. And the wrath of man is praise!