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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... in just seventy - nine words - less than one minute's talking . This is what he said : " Gentlemen , fellow citizens : - I presume you know who I am ; I am humble Abraham Lincoln . I have been solicited by many friends to.
... in just seventy - nine words - less than one minute's talking . This is what he said : " Gentlemen , fellow citizens : - I presume you know who I am ; I am humble Abraham Lincoln . I have been solicited by many friends to.
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... words , their belief " that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy . " At the end of his fourth term , Mr. Lincoln declined a further nomination , finding it absolutely necessary to devote more time than ...
... words , their belief " that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy . " At the end of his fourth term , Mr. Lincoln declined a further nomination , finding it absolutely necessary to devote more time than ...
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... words , nearly a quarter of them hav- ing over one syllable ; Mr. Lincoln only twenty - five , of which only three , or less than one - eighth , have more than one syllable . Counting still more closely , we find that Mr. Webster used ...
... words , nearly a quarter of them hav- ing over one syllable ; Mr. Lincoln only twenty - five , of which only three , or less than one - eighth , have more than one syllable . Counting still more closely , we find that Mr. Webster used ...
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... words as a rule would go very far to purify the whole field of political party action . Little did the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President , know what they were doing . Little did the honest , fatherly , patriotic ...
... words as a rule would go very far to purify the whole field of political party action . Little did the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President , know what they were doing . Little did the honest , fatherly , patriotic ...
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... words , plain and simple as they are , are full of deep and melancholy music : " 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 ...
... words , plain and simple as they are , are full of deep and melancholy music : " 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 ...
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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.