The Union and the War: A Sermon, Preached November 27, 1862C. Scribner, 1863 - 40 páginas |
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... never be shut , either in prosperity or adversity , either in peace or in war . As a nation , we have certainly to be grateful for abundant harvests , for universal health , and for ami- cable relations with the other nations of the ...
... never be shut , either in prosperity or adversity , either in peace or in war . As a nation , we have certainly to be grateful for abundant harvests , for universal health , and for ami- cable relations with the other nations of the ...
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... never had a fuller or a deeper significance than now . present civil war , and the existing struggle for na- tional existence , throw a flood of light upon a class of truths which have been almost lost out of sight in the past years of ...
... never had a fuller or a deeper significance than now . present civil war , and the existing struggle for na- tional existence , throw a flood of light upon a class of truths which have been almost lost out of sight in the past years of ...
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... never to be altered hereafter , except by constitutional modes . and methods ) by which the original thirteen States became an organized nation , and into which all the rest have been grafted as living branches of the living vine . It ...
... never to be altered hereafter , except by constitutional modes . and methods ) by which the original thirteen States became an organized nation , and into which all the rest have been grafted as living branches of the living vine . It ...
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... never have been before . Could those two great statesmen , who understood the genius of the American Con- stitution better than any except its founders and framers , and whose eloquence , from youth to old age , was inspired by the idea ...
... never have been before . Could those two great statesmen , who understood the genius of the American Con- stitution better than any except its founders and framers , and whose eloquence , from youth to old age , was inspired by the idea ...
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... never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension . Indeed , the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection . It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now ...
... never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension . Indeed , the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection . It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 23 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 30 - From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Página 22 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you.
Página 23 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Página 3 - The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Página 23 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering •with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired...
Página 20 - ... for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has clotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 39 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Página 9 - The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Página 20 - ... whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.