Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherHartford Publishing Company, 1868 - 575 páginas This book contains biographies of leading statesmen, generals, and orators during the Civil War. |
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... principles laid down by Jesus Christ , of the absolute equal brotherhood of man , and the rights of man on the simple ground of manhood . Notwithstanding the contrary practices of a section of the States united in the Union , and the ...
... principles laid down by Jesus Christ , of the absolute equal brotherhood of man , and the rights of man on the simple ground of manhood . Notwithstanding the contrary practices of a section of the States united in the Union , and the ...
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... principles in the conduct of political affairs . For these principles they have temporarily suffered buffetings , oppres- sions , losses , persecutions , and in one great instance , DEATH . All of them honored liberty when she was hard ...
... principles in the conduct of political affairs . For these principles they have temporarily suffered buffetings , oppres- sions , losses , persecutions , and in one great instance , DEATH . All of them honored liberty when she was hard ...
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... principles have been tried in the fire , men who have braved opposition and persecution and loss for the sake of what they believed to be true , and knew to be right , and for this even more than for their bravery in facing dan- ger ...
... principles have been tried in the fire , men who have braved opposition and persecution and loss for the sake of what they believed to be true , and knew to be right , and for this even more than for their bravery in facing dan- ger ...
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... Principles - Sumner Opposes Slavery Within the Constitution , as Garrison Outside of it - Anti - Slavery and the Whigs - The Political Abolitionist Platform - Webster asked in vain to Oppose Slavery -Sumner's Rebuke of Winthrop Joins ...
... Principles - Sumner Opposes Slavery Within the Constitution , as Garrison Outside of it - Anti - Slavery and the Whigs - The Political Abolitionist Platform - Webster asked in vain to Oppose Slavery -Sumner's Rebuke of Winthrop Joins ...
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... principle which concerns all mankind . It was the war for the rights of the working class of society as against the usurpation of privileged aristoc- racies . You can make nothing else of it . That is the reason why , like a shaft of ...
... principle which concerns all mankind . It was the war for the rights of the working class of society as against the usurpation of privileged aristoc- racies . You can make nothing else of it . That is the reason why , like a shaft of ...
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Página 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 335 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Página 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Página 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Página 79 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Página 55 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and...
Página 66 - 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 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.