American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters, and Other Papers which Illustrate the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of AmericaAmerican Book Exchange, 1880 - 674 páginas |
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... cause of strife was the cancer of Human Slavery , we have arranged , also in the order of time , papers which illustrate the growth of public opinion ; the enlightenment of the public conscience ; the courage of those who protested ...
... cause of strife was the cancer of Human Slavery , we have arranged , also in the order of time , papers which illustrate the growth of public opinion ; the enlightenment of the public conscience ; the courage of those who protested ...
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... cause for making the seizure , the un- happy owner may not maintain any action against the illegal seizure for damages , or obtain any satisfaction ; but he may return to Georgia quite ruined and undone , in conformity to an act of ...
... cause for making the seizure , the un- happy owner may not maintain any action against the illegal seizure for damages , or obtain any satisfaction ; but he may return to Georgia quite ruined and undone , in conformity to an act of ...
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... CAUSES OF AMERICAN DISCONTENT . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , Philadelphia , January 7 , 1768 . SIR : As the cause of the present ill - humor in America , and of the resolutions taken there to purchase less of our manufactures , does not seem to ...
... CAUSES OF AMERICAN DISCONTENT . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , Philadelphia , January 7 , 1768 . SIR : As the cause of the present ill - humor in America , and of the resolutions taken there to purchase less of our manufactures , does not seem to ...
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... cause they are engaged to support ; hence it is , that they are ever to be dreaded as the ready engines of tyranny and oppression . And it is too observable that they are prone to introduce the same mode of decision in the disputes of ...
... cause they are engaged to support ; hence it is , that they are ever to be dreaded as the ready engines of tyranny and oppression . And it is too observable that they are prone to introduce the same mode of decision in the disputes of ...
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... cause , and in refutation of the pretension set up by their too forgetful posterity , over their unhappy colonists . Con fiding in the undeniable truth of this single position , that , “ to live by one man's will , became the cause of ...
... cause , and in refutation of the pretension set up by their too forgetful posterity , over their unhappy colonists . Con fiding in the undeniable truth of this single position , that , “ to live by one man's will , became the cause of ...
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Página 113 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Página 498 - 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 584 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 640 - South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence 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. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled...
Página 640 - 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.
Página 283 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder.
Página 487 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn...
Página 195 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 644 - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that when he cometh and knocketh, they -may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching...
Página 150 - I consider it as an indispensable duty, to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them, to His holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of...