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The other incident happened after his defeat for the Whig nomination for
President in 1852 . I was then Clerk of the House of Representatives of the
United States , and one of the editors of the Washington Union , published by that
fine ...
The other incident happened after his defeat for the Whig nomination for
President in 1852 . I was then Clerk of the House of Representatives of the
United States , and one of the editors of the Washington Union , published by that
fine ...
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The political events of his administration are historical . Let me say a word about
the man . He was at once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate
public officer I ever knew . As President he was a model of high breeding .
The political events of his administration are historical . Let me say a word about
the man . He was at once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate
public officer I ever knew . As President he was a model of high breeding .
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On the night of the caucus , President Pierce sent for me and told me that he
believed I could not be renominated , but that he was resolved , if I was not , to
send my name into the Senate for an important mission to one of the South
American ...
On the night of the caucus , President Pierce sent for me and told me that he
believed I could not be renominated , but that he was resolved , if I was not , to
send my name into the Senate for an important mission to one of the South
American ...
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The rare summary of the second President of a really great family , covering
nearly two generations , has not yet seen the light ... Other Presidents and
statesmen were not so industrious , with perhaps the possible exception of Mr.
Buchanan ...
The rare summary of the second President of a really great family , covering
nearly two generations , has not yet seen the light ... Other Presidents and
statesmen were not so industrious , with perhaps the possible exception of Mr.
Buchanan ...
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It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on
Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I
left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned , save
...
It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on
Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I
left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned , save
...
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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.