Politics and Pen Pictures at Home and AbroadG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 - 445 páginas |
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... took the railroad train to Harrisburg , was interesting ; the scenery along the banks of the Susquehanna was beautiful , and a bright winter day imparted a charm to the varied landscape . I found a large number of delegates assembled ...
... took the railroad train to Harrisburg , was interesting ; the scenery along the banks of the Susquehanna was beautiful , and a bright winter day imparted a charm to the varied landscape . I found a large number of delegates assembled ...
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... took me to call on General Scott ; he had known him for years , and felt for him a sincere friendship , and he wished me to know him too , as a coming man . General Scott spoke of affairs without reserve , and felt that we had committed ...
... took me to call on General Scott ; he had known him for years , and felt for him a sincere friendship , and he wished me to know him too , as a coming man . General Scott spoke of affairs without reserve , and felt that we had committed ...
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... took leave of Mr. Webster , and , as we descended the stair- way , Mr. Preston said to me : " He will not live to see the Ist of January . " " Now , " said Mr. Preston , " I wish to present you to Mrs. Madison ; she is a glory . " Mrs ...
... took leave of Mr. Webster , and , as we descended the stair- way , Mr. Preston said to me : " He will not live to see the Ist of January . " " Now , " said Mr. Preston , " I wish to present you to Mrs. Madison ; she is a glory . " Mrs ...
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... took leave , and , to my surprise , was saluted by his guns as my boat drew away from the grand ship . When I set out to visit the several ships , I did not anticipate anything more than an interesting inspection of them , but the young ...
... took leave , and , to my surprise , was saluted by his guns as my boat drew away from the grand ship . When I set out to visit the several ships , I did not anticipate anything more than an interesting inspection of them , but the young ...
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... took me to a world as far removed from commerce as if by some strange power I had been transported into some earlier century . Yet Antwerp is a place of active and important commercial transactions ; Napoleon made it a place of ...
... took me to a world as far removed from commerce as if by some strange power I had been transported into some earlier century . Yet Antwerp is a place of active and important commercial transactions ; Napoleon made it a place of ...
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Página 291 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend...
Página 344 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Página 337 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 337 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 31 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 55 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 291 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Página 288 - That the government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.
Página 317 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Página 337 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.