The National Tragedy: Four Sermons Delivered Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the Life and Death of Abraham LincolnA. Taber & Brother, 1865 - 67 páginas |
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... henceforth our martyr and our saint . Grief not for him ! But grief that our hands cannot bestow the crown which his have so nobly won , and that our eyes cannot see him wear it , moving with honors and grateful love among us down to ...
... henceforth our martyr and our saint . Grief not for him ! But grief that our hands cannot bestow the crown which his have so nobly won , and that our eyes cannot see him wear it , moving with honors and grateful love among us down to ...
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... henceforth our hero as well as our martyr - president . Nor do we mourn for our country's cause , as if that were lost . In thus completing and crowning his own life , he had conducted the nation to the point of assured triumph and ...
... henceforth our hero as well as our martyr - president . Nor do we mourn for our country's cause , as if that were lost . In thus completing and crowning his own life , he had conducted the nation to the point of assured triumph and ...
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... henceforth will be no more the same , but transfigured and impelled by a new spirit . Through our great leader , we are crucified . God grant that we may also be glorified , even as he is glorified ! Of all the days in the year , the ...
... henceforth will be no more the same , but transfigured and impelled by a new spirit . Through our great leader , we are crucified . God grant that we may also be glorified , even as he is glorified ! Of all the days in the year , the ...
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... henceforth in institutions and spirit as well as in form , and the hospitable home and helper of universal humanity . 1 Here , my friends , in these capacities and in these oppor- tunities and deeds , are the elements of a rare ...
... henceforth in institutions and spirit as well as in form , and the hospitable home and helper of universal humanity . 1 Here , my friends , in these capacities and in these oppor- tunities and deeds , are the elements of a rare ...
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... Henceforth our cause is consecrated by his martyrdom . Bury him ? We bury only what was the least and outermost part of him . While the stricken people all through the land , in city and in country , join in these obsequies over his ...
... Henceforth our cause is consecrated by his martyrdom . Bury him ? We bury only what was the least and outermost part of him . While the stricken people all through the land , in city and in country , join in these obsequies over his ...
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9 April abolition abolitionist Abra Abraham Lincoln acts Almighty American slavery assassin believed bereaved blood born cabinet character chorus civil conflict Congress consecration contest country's crime crown dead president death Declaration of Independence deeds Democracy democratic dence despotism destiny divine justice divine law drama duty earth emancipation equal eternal evil faith fate forever free soil friends give glorified glory God's grave hands heart heavens henceforth hero honor horror hosts hour hour of triumph human infamy Infinite intellect judgment leader liberty lifted listen loyal magnanimity moral nature nation never Pharisee place in history political President falls President Lincoln principles Proclamation Providence pure race rebellion religion religious Republic republican freedom retribution retributive justice reverence ruler slavery solemn speech spirit statesman strength struggle sublime surrender testament testator to-day tragedy triumph true trust truth of republican utter victory Washington weep whole wise words
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Página 54 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? 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 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 67 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Página 57 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Página 57 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 61 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
Página 33 - 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 60 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Página 56 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything.
Página 56 - Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost.
Página 56 - ... cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as, in the providence of God, it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it!