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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... SUMNER . - Mr. Sumner an instance of Free State High Culture - The " Brahmin Caste " of New England - The Sumner Ancestry ; a Kentish Family - Governor Increase Sumner ; His Revolutionary Patriotism - His Stately Presence ; " A ...
... SUMNER . - Mr. Sumner an instance of Free State High Culture - The " Brahmin Caste " of New England - The Sumner Ancestry ; a Kentish Family - Governor Increase Sumner ; His Revolutionary Patriotism - His Stately Presence ; " A ...
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... Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sherida Harriet ... increase the number , and thus bequeath a noble and beneficent example to posterity ! Mr. Lincoln is among these ...
... Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sherida Harriet ... increase the number , and thus bequeath a noble and beneficent example to posterity ! Mr. Lincoln is among these ...
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... Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sherida Harriet ... increase , had lost by stragglers , had rested ill in the cold rain , and had been all night long awakened every ...
... Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sherida Harriet ... increase , had lost by stragglers , had rested ill in the cold rain , and had been all night long awakened every ...
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... Sumner Ancestry ; a Kentish Family - Governor Increase Sumner ; His Revolutionary Patriotism - His Stately Presence ; " a Governor that can Walk " -Charles Sumner's Father - Mr . Sumner's Education , Legal and Literary Studies ...
... Sumner Ancestry ; a Kentish Family - Governor Increase Sumner ; His Revolutionary Patriotism - His Stately Presence ; " a Governor that can Walk " -Charles Sumner's Father - Mr . Sumner's Education , Legal and Literary Studies ...
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... Increase Sumner , the cousin of Charles Sumner's father , one of the most distinguished Judges and Governors of Mas- sachusetts . He was indeed one of the nursing fathers of the State of Massachusetts during the critical pe- riod when ...
... Increase Sumner , the cousin of Charles Sumner's father , one of the most distinguished Judges and Governors of Mas- sachusetts . He was indeed one of the nursing fathers of the State of Massachusetts during the critical pe- riod when ...
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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.