Representative American Orations to Illustrate American Political History, Volumen3G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 |
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... whole Black Republican side of the Senate were silent . They left it to me to denounce it . And what was the reply made to me on that occasion ? Mr. Toombs , of Georgia , got up and undertook to lecture me on the ground that I ought not ...
... whole Black Republican side of the Senate were silent . They left it to me to denounce it . And what was the reply made to me on that occasion ? Mr. Toombs , of Georgia , got up and undertook to lecture me on the ground that I ought not ...
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... whole American people now enjoy . One of the chief elements of the value of human life is freedom in the pursuit of hap- piness . The slave system is not only intolera- ble , unjust , and inhuman , toward the laborer , whom , only ...
... whole American people now enjoy . One of the chief elements of the value of human life is freedom in the pursuit of hap- piness . The slave system is not only intolera- ble , unjust , and inhuman , toward the laborer , whom , only ...
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... whole state . In states where the slave system pre- vails , the masters , directly or indirectly , secure all political power , and constitute a ruling aristocracy . In states where the free - labor sys- tem prevails , universal ...
... whole state . In states where the slave system pre- vails , the masters , directly or indirectly , secure all political power , and constitute a ruling aristocracy . In states where the free - labor sys- tem prevails , universal ...
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... whole structure of the government broadly on the principle that all men are created equal , and therefore free - little dreaming that , within the short period of one hundred years , their de- scendants would bear to be told by any ...
... whole structure of the government broadly on the principle that all men are created equal , and therefore free - little dreaming that , within the short period of one hundred years , their de- scendants would bear to be told by any ...
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... whole field . We believe that the only security for the institution to which we attach so much importance is secession and a Southern confederacy . We are satisfied , notwithstanding the disclaimers upon the part of the Black Re ...
... whole field . We believe that the only security for the institution to which we attach so much importance is secession and a Southern confederacy . We are satisfied , notwithstanding the disclaimers upon the part of the Black Re ...
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Página 154 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 140 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Página 145 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Página 245 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Página 244 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Página 246 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Página 150 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Página 245 - 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 bondsman'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 4 - 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...
Página 15 - How can he refuse that trade in that "property" shall be "perfectly free," unless he does it as a protection to the home production? And as the home producers will probably not ask the protection, he will be wholly without a ground of opposition. Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday — that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change of which...