Life and Times of Andrew Johnson: Seventeenth President of the United States. Written from a National Stand-pointD. Appleton and Company, 1866 - 363 páginas |
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... patriotism , his moderation , his conservatism , his nationality , would do more toward quieting all apprehensions as to the future , than any thing else . The object of the author is to present Mr. Johnson to the public mind just as he ...
... patriotism , his moderation , his conservatism , his nationality , would do more toward quieting all apprehensions as to the future , than any thing else . The object of the author is to present Mr. Johnson to the public mind just as he ...
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... patriotism they have dis- played in the hour of danger ; their magnanimity and forbearance in the hour of triumph over a captive foe , whose garments were red with their brothers ' blood ; the battles they have fought and fields of ...
... patriotism they have dis- played in the hour of danger ; their magnanimity and forbearance in the hour of triumph over a captive foe , whose garments were red with their brothers ' blood ; the battles they have fought and fields of ...
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... patriotism , so vile in his nature , so diabolical in spirit , as to lay impious hands upon the magnificent structure and topple it to the ground , crushing all beneath the only hope and last ex- periment of man's capability for self ...
... patriotism , so vile in his nature , so diabolical in spirit , as to lay impious hands upon the magnificent structure and topple it to the ground , crushing all beneath the only hope and last ex- periment of man's capability for self ...
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... patriotism for his country , that could say to the poor laboring man of the old States , Do not go away ; stay here in your poverty ; do not go and settle on the new and fertile lands of the West , but remain where you are ; linger ...
... patriotism for his country , that could say to the poor laboring man of the old States , Do not go away ; stay here in your poverty ; do not go and settle on the new and fertile lands of the West , but remain where you are ; linger ...
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... Patriotism , love of country , is only a more enlarged sentiment of that attachment , reverence , and devotion the heart feels for the home of childhood , or the adopted home , where the social relations and the domestic affections ...
... Patriotism , love of country , is only a more enlarged sentiment of that attachment , reverence , and devotion the heart feels for the home of childhood , or the adopted home , where the social relations and the domestic affections ...
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Página 141 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; 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 ;...
Página 151 - Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Página 144 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 27 - Lift up now thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is thine.
Página 80 - Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of...
Página 141 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States, now in revolt against the constitutional Government...
Página i - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Página 266 - This being the case, it is very evident that the common laws of war — those maxims of humanity, moderation, and honor — ought to be observed by both parties in every civil war.
Página 265 - When a party is formed in a State who no longer obey the sovereign, and are possessed of sufficient strength to oppose him — or when, in a Republic, the nation is divided into two opposite factions, and both sides take up arms — this is called a civil war.