Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1873 |
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... seemed to know the especial weakness to address ; but nothing was more potent than his appeal to the constituency of the hesitating member . " I tell you , " he used to say to such as doubted , " you can make more reputa- tion by being ...
... seemed to know the especial weakness to address ; but nothing was more potent than his appeal to the constituency of the hesitating member . " I tell you , " he used to say to such as doubted , " you can make more reputa- tion by being ...
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... seemed to attract them to each other . Barton and myself were born in the same town , and for many years his star shone unrivaled as a consummate orator . Conrad came along from Philadelphia as a lecturer and Whig speaker . He was as ...
... seemed to attract them to each other . Barton and myself were born in the same town , and for many years his star shone unrivaled as a consummate orator . Conrad came along from Philadelphia as a lecturer and Whig speaker . He was as ...
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... seemed to have read the character , and to know the peculiarities of every leading man in Congress and the country , and would play off many an innocent joke upon them . I will not attempt to repeat what has been so often described ...
... seemed to have read the character , and to know the peculiarities of every leading man in Congress and the country , and would play off many an innocent joke upon them . I will not attempt to repeat what has been so often described ...
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... seemed to feel as if he had fallen into a trap . His solicitude to hear Douglas was perhaps a sort of explanation of his course . The House was divided CHANGES OF OPINION . 53 between admiration for the new 52 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... seemed to feel as if he had fallen into a trap . His solicitude to hear Douglas was perhaps a sort of explanation of his course . The House was divided CHANGES OF OPINION . 53 between admiration for the new 52 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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... seemed to copy much from Clay and Crittenden . Jefferson Davis was always a capital dialectician , not strong in argument , but always stern in convictions . Hammond , of South Carolina , had a good presence and a persuasive tone , but ...
... seemed to copy much from Clay and Crittenden . Jefferson Davis was always a capital dialectician , not strong in argument , but always stern in convictions . Hammond , of South Carolina , had a good presence and a persuasive tone , but ...
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Página 170 - 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 171 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Página 12 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Página 244 - I assure you and your mayor that I had hoped on this occasion, and upon all occasions during my life, that I shall do nothing inconsistent with the teachings of these holy and most sacred walls. I have never asked anything that does not breathe from those walls.
Página 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and 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.
Página 170 - 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 245 - 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 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Página 91 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
Página 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...