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... that I had heard the speech of Pierre Soulé , Senator in Congress from
Louisiana - an extremist especially distasteful to Mr. Clay -- and that I thought it a
very thorough and able presentation of the side adverse to the Compromise
Measures .
... that I had heard the speech of Pierre Soulé , Senator in Congress from
Louisiana - an extremist especially distasteful to Mr. Clay -- and that I thought it a
very thorough and able presentation of the side adverse to the Compromise
Measures .
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Writing of Thomas H. Benton recalls an incident that happened during the
Presidency of James K. Polk , when Mr. Buchanan was Secretary of State .
Colonel Benton was a sharp thorn in the side of the Administration on the Oregon
question .
Writing of Thomas H. Benton recalls an incident that happened during the
Presidency of James K. Polk , when Mr. Buchanan was Secretary of State .
Colonel Benton was a sharp thorn in the side of the Administration on the Oregon
question .
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The Whigs were sure that he had the best of me during the Mexican war , and the
Democrats were as sure I had the best of him : but neither side knew that more
than once the severest things we said of each other were written when we were ...
The Whigs were sure that he had the best of me during the Mexican war , and the
Democrats were as sure I had the best of him : but neither side knew that more
than once the severest things we said of each other were written when we were ...
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On the cold Friday referred to , February 3 , 1860 , I was elected Clerk of the
House , by a single vote , over all others . It was the last drop in the bitter bowl of
Democratic disappointment , and it created an overflow of anger on the one side
and ...
On the cold Friday referred to , February 3 , 1860 , I was elected Clerk of the
House , by a single vote , over all others . It was the last drop in the bitter bowl of
Democratic disappointment , and it created an overflow of anger on the one side
and ...
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James S. Jackson , of Kentucky , one of the bravest and best men I ever knew ,
stood at my side , and I asked him , sotto voce , to help me out . “ Remember it
yourself , you infernal Black Republican , ” was his quick reply , and I finished my
...
James S. Jackson , of Kentucky , one of the bravest and best men I ever knew ,
stood at my side , and I asked him , sotto voce , to help me out . “ Remember it
yourself , you infernal Black Republican , ” was his quick reply , and I finished my
...
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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.