The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 páginas |
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... vote it was seriously declared that it was of the high- est importance that men be able " to navigate . " These debates quickened James's desire for read- ing , and in less than two years he had read and re- membered so much concerning ...
... vote it was seriously declared that it was of the high- est importance that men be able " to navigate . " These debates quickened James's desire for read- ing , and in less than two years he had read and re- membered so much concerning ...
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... votes any measure which they brought before the club . The contest over some matter concerning a public debate , become so serious and bitter that young Garfield arose , in considerable anger , and declared that sooner than be compelled ...
... votes any measure which they brought before the club . The contest over some matter concerning a public debate , become so serious and bitter that young Garfield arose , in considerable anger , and declared that sooner than be compelled ...
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... voted with him . When the con- stitutional amendment was submitted to the Ohio Le- gislature , which would guarantee ... vote , every measure or resolution which could be construed into a concession to the party in favor of human bondage ...
... voted with him . When the con- stitutional amendment was submitted to the Ohio Le- gislature , which would guarantee ... vote , every measure or resolution which could be construed into a concession to the party in favor of human bondage ...
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... vote upon that motion is taken I desire to say a few words . This day , Mr. Speaker , will be sadly memorable so long as this nation shall endure , which God grant may be ' till the last syllable of recorded time , ' when the 216 THE ...
... vote upon that motion is taken I desire to say a few words . This day , Mr. Speaker , will be sadly memorable so long as this nation shall endure , which God grant may be ' till the last syllable of recorded time , ' when the 216 THE ...
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... votes , because of his supposed espousal of the cause of rebellious criminals . Other cases followed with occasionally a like result , from which he easily recovered , but which , for the time , annoyed him and disturbed his district ...
... votes , because of his supposed espousal of the cause of rebellious criminals . Other cases followed with occasionally a like result , from which he easily recovered , but which , for the time , annoyed him and disturbed his district ...
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Página 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 226 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Página 218 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 228 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Página 219 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 331 - ... upon the party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The prosperity which is made possible in the South, by its great advantages of soil and climate, will never be realized until every voter can freely and safely support any party he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Página 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Página 328 - Republican firesides, where the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and...
Página 227 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.