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... where I had the honor to vote for James G. Birney for President in 1844 , being
one of a very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an
Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who
occasionally ...
... where I had the honor to vote for James G. Birney for President in 1844 , being
one of a very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an
Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who
occasionally ...
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In 1868 , the Republicans of Pennsylvania , by a unanimous vote , put me at the
head of their delegation to the Republican National Convention , to vote for
General Grant as their candidate for President . The first thing I did , after getting
to ...
In 1868 , the Republicans of Pennsylvania , by a unanimous vote , put me at the
head of their delegation to the Republican National Convention , to vote for
General Grant as their candidate for President . The first thing I did , after getting
to ...
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California was to vote on the 7th of September , and Broderick was going back to
meet his people . His magnificent campaign against the Southern policy of
forcing slavery into Kansas had aroused the bitterest resentment , and the worst ...
California was to vote on the 7th of September , and Broderick was going back to
meet his people . His magnificent campaign against the Southern policy of
forcing slavery into Kansas had aroused the bitterest resentment , and the worst ...
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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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Among these were many Southerners , and some who had voted against me only
a few hours before . As I count over their names , I find that not a few have since
been entered on the books of death . Schwartz , Burlingame , Pennington , Eliot ...
Among these were many Southerners , and some who had voted against me only
a few hours before . As I count over their names , I find that not a few have since
been entered on the books of death . Schwartz , Burlingame , Pennington , Eliot ...
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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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