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I. IN 1850 , after the triumph of the Compromise Measures , Henry Clay visited
Philadelphia , and stayed at the American House , on Chestnut Street , opposite
Independence Hall . As I had supported these Measures in opposition to the ...
I. IN 1850 , after the triumph of the Compromise Measures , Henry Clay visited
Philadelphia , and stayed at the American House , on Chestnut Street , opposite
Independence Hall . As I had supported these Measures in opposition to the ...
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And this theory sprang from the belief that the laboring men of America are
seldom true to the bright minds so often reared among them . His memorable
words in reply to the haughty Hammond of South Carolina , on the 22d of March ,
1858 ...
And this theory sprang from the belief that the laboring men of America are
seldom true to the bright minds so often reared among them . His memorable
words in reply to the haughty Hammond of South Carolina , on the 22d of March ,
1858 ...
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He was the editor of the Philadelphia North American for a time , while I was
editor of the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian , and we had many exciting
controversies . The Whigs were sure that he had the best of me during the
Mexican war , and the ...
He was the editor of the Philadelphia North American for a time , while I was
editor of the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian , and we had many exciting
controversies . The Whigs were sure that he had the best of me during the
Mexican war , and the ...
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Mr. Benjamin Moran , the accomplished Secretary of the American Legation ,
kindly accompanied me , and introduced me to most of those present . One
gentleman was especially cordial , Lord Frederick Cavendish , second son of the
Duke of ...
Mr. Benjamin Moran , the accomplished Secretary of the American Legation ,
kindly accompanied me , and introduced me to most of those present . One
gentleman was especially cordial , Lord Frederick Cavendish , second son of the
Duke of ...
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It is a grand commentary upon the American Constitution that we permit these
words to be uttered . I ask the Senator to recollect , too , what , save to send aid
and comfort to the enemy , do these predictions amount to ? Every word thus
uttered ...
It is a grand commentary upon the American Constitution that we permit these
words to be uttered . I ask the Senator to recollect , too , what , save to send aid
and comfort to the enemy , do these predictions amount to ? Every word thus
uttered ...
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Página 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Página 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Página 12 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Página 445 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHBOP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 169 - 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.
Página 245 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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| Título | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney |
| Autor | John Wien Forney |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Harper & Brothers, 1873 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 10 Dic. 2007 |
| Largo | 444 páginas |
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