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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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Shorthand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift , accurate , and magical
science ; and I knew the Whig papers , which resolved to print the great man's
speech entire , would be delayed till long past their usual hour next morning .
Shorthand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift , accurate , and magical
science ; and I knew the Whig papers , which resolved to print the great man's
speech entire , would be delayed till long past their usual hour next morning .
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The Democrats were delighted — the Whigs furious , especially Mr. Greeley , of
The Tribune , who had come over to hear Mr. Webster , and who bought several
copies of the old speech , thinking it the new one . But Mr. Webster enjoyed it ...
The Democrats were delighted — the Whigs furious , especially Mr. Greeley , of
The Tribune , who had come over to hear Mr. Webster , and who bought several
copies of the old speech , thinking it the new one . But Mr. Webster enjoyed it ...
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... very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson
majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR .
WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC
MEN ...
... very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson
majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR .
WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC
MEN ...
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17 speeches against slavery , and whose peculiarities were that when he
became excited he gave way to uncontrollable tears and oaths . I always went to
hear him , for there was an odd fascination about him . One night he was
advertised to ...
17 speeches against slavery , and whose peculiarities were that when he
became excited he gave way to uncontrollable tears and oaths . I always went to
hear him , for there was an odd fascination about him . One night he was
advertised to ...
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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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