Select Orations Illustrating American Political HistorySamuel Bannister Harding Macmillan, 1909 - 519 páginas |
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... influence on political action or political opinion at the time it was delivered ? And will it , better than other speeches of the period , enable us to penetrate back into the spirit of the time ? Nevertheless , considerations of ...
... influence on political action or political opinion at the time it was delivered ? And will it , better than other speeches of the period , enable us to penetrate back into the spirit of the time ? Nevertheless , considerations of ...
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... influential men of the time were them- selves most important forces in making history . If we read them appreciatively we may not only know what our ances- tors thought , but we may feel the influences which led them to act as they did ...
... influential men of the time were them- selves most important forces in making history . If we read them appreciatively we may not only know what our ances- tors thought , but we may feel the influences which led them to act as they did ...
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... influential , from Ames , Webster , Calhoun , Clay , Sumner , Lincoln , Stephens , Schurz , as well as from several men not here represented . In estimating them the reader of to - day must remember that we cannot judge altogether by ...
... influential , from Ames , Webster , Calhoun , Clay , Sumner , Lincoln , Stephens , Schurz , as well as from several men not here represented . In estimating them the reader of to - day must remember that we cannot judge altogether by ...
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... influence was after all upon readers , it is pertinent to ask : Why need they have been spoken at all ? What do they ... influential with inexpert readers ; and these qualities , it is safe to say , would not have appeared , in nearly so ...
... influence was after all upon readers , it is pertinent to ask : Why need they have been spoken at all ? What do they ... influential with inexpert readers ; and these qualities , it is safe to say , would not have appeared , in nearly so ...
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... influence upon public business . A few of the speeches here given seem untrustworthy erratic , fanatical , or disingenuous ; but not one is merely the speech of a demagogue , not even that of Douglas in his debate with Lincoln , which ...
... influence upon public business . A few of the speeches here given seem untrustworthy erratic , fanatical , or disingenuous ; but not one is merely the speech of a demagogue , not even that of Douglas in his debate with Lincoln , which ...
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Página 29 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Página 161 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 311 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 416 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those •who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
Página 29 - Peace, peace!— but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Página 158 - Let it simply be asked. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 155 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations — northern and southern — Atlantic and western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Página 419 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to 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...
Página 157 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent 'despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Página 381 - 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