The National Tragedy: Four Sermons Delivered Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the Life and Death of Abraham LincolnA. Taber & Brother, 1865 - 67 páginas |
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... laws of divine justice , and in a government of equal rights and equal chances for all . But most of all do we weep for the enormity of this crime , - that the assassin , at home under despotism , but a stranger to our free government ...
... laws of divine justice , and in a government of equal rights and equal chances for all . But most of all do we weep for the enormity of this crime , - that the assassin , at home under despotism , but a stranger to our free government ...
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... laws of dramatic unity , stricter in the actual than in any fictitious tragedy , could not spare it this result ... law of its own necessities , brought it helplessly bound to this infamous end ; and so it is forever proclaimed before ...
... laws of dramatic unity , stricter in the actual than in any fictitious tragedy , could not spare it this result ... law of its own necessities , brought it helplessly bound to this infamous end ; and so it is forever proclaimed before ...
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... law be maintained ; let there be no belittling of the great occasion by any assumption of the powers of retribution by private hands ; but there are eternal laws of divine justice to be nationally vindicated for white and for black ...
... law be maintained ; let there be no belittling of the great occasion by any assumption of the powers of retribution by private hands ; but there are eternal laws of divine justice to be nationally vindicated for white and for black ...
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... our finite lives , an overruling , uni- versal Law , holding them all firmly in its grasp , works out unswervingly its wise designs ; and how , over all special wills and deeds , with their warrings and weaknesses and 14.
... our finite lives , an overruling , uni- versal Law , holding them all firmly in its grasp , works out unswervingly its wise designs ; and how , over all special wills and deeds , with their warrings and weaknesses and 14.
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... Laws , in the eternity of His Love . Over all the failures and sins and crimes of men , the great Law still works on , taking up and solving all these lower disturbances in its higher spiritual harmonies . Look up , O friends , even ...
... Laws , in the eternity of His Love . Over all the failures and sins and crimes of men , the great Law still works on , taking up and solving all these lower disturbances in its higher spiritual harmonies . Look up , O friends , even ...
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Página 66 - 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 56 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? 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 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 66 - 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?
Página 60 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Página 63 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
Página 58 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way to all — gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
Página 35 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath 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 battlefield 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 62 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Página 58 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything.