The Magazine of History: With Notes and Queries. Extra numbersW. Abbatt., 1914 |
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The Magazine of History: With Notes ..., Tema 125,Volumen32 -Tema 132,Volumen33 Vista completa - 1926 |
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Abraham Lincoln appeared arms army arrived bark beaver began boat boys called camp canoes Captain Ceaze Chillicothe Colonel command creek deer distance Edensburgh encamped enemy escape feet fell fire Fort Jefferson Fort Pickens Fort Pitt Fort Sumter four friends gave Government hand horses hour hundred hunt Indians island Kentucky Kickapoo killed lake Lake Erie land Licking River Lincoln lived Major manner Martin Chuzzlewit Miami miles morning nation never night North o'clock Ohio party peace President prisoners raccoons returned river Sandusky savages scalps Shawanese skins Soaper soon squaws Tecaughretanego third-rate tion told tomahawk Tontileaugo took town tree troops Union venison warriors Wilkey woods wounded Wyandot yards ἀλλ ἀλλὰ γὰρ δὲ εἰ ἐν ἐς ἡμῖν καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Página 571 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 572 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Página 571 - None shall be weary nor stumble among them ; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken : Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, Their horses...
Página 558 - He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.
Página 520 - Again, if one State may secede, so may another; and when all shall have seceded, none is left to pay the debts. Is this quite just to creditors...
Página 519 - This relative matter of national power and State rights, as a principle, is no other than the principle of generality and locality. Whatever concerns the whole should be confided to the whole—to the General Government; while whatever concerns only the State should be left exclusively to the State.
Página 507 - Having been convened on an extraordinary occasion, as authorized by the Constitution, your attention is not called to any ordinary subject of legislation. At the beginning of the present Presidential term, four months ago, the functions of the Federal Government were found to be generally suspended within the several States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, excepting only those of the Post-office Department.
Página 508 - It promised a continuance of the mails at Government expense to the very people who were resisting the Government, and it gave repeated pledges against any disturbance to any of the people or any of their rights. Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne without which it was believed possible to keep the Government on foot.
Página 511 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 521 - So large an army as the government has now on foot was never before known without a soldier in it but who has taken his place there of his own free choice. But more than this, there are many single regiments whose members, one and another, possess full practical knowledge of all the arts, sciences, professions, and whatever else, whether useful or elegant, is known in the...