The Promises of the Declaration of Independence: Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, June 1, 1865Ticknor & Fields, 1865 - 61 páginas |
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... THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES OF THE CITY OF BOSTON . JUNE 1 , 1865 , BY CHARLES SUMNER . BOSTON : TICKNOR & FIELDS , 1865 . Printed by J. E. FARWELL & COMPANY , 37 CONGRESS THE PROMISES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ...
... THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES OF THE CITY OF BOSTON . JUNE 1 , 1865 , BY CHARLES SUMNER . BOSTON : TICKNOR & FIELDS , 1865 . Printed by J. E. FARWELL & COMPANY , 37 CONGRESS THE PROMISES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ...
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Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, June 1, 1865 Charles Sumner. Printed by J. E. FARWELL & COMPANY , 37 CONGRESS STREET . EULOGY . In the universe of God there are no.
Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, June 1, 1865 Charles Sumner. Printed by J. E. FARWELL & COMPANY , 37 CONGRESS STREET . EULOGY . In the universe of God there are no.
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... Congress assembled , solemnly publish and declare that these United Colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown , and that all political ...
... Congress assembled , solemnly publish and declare that these United Colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown , and that all political ...
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... Congress transmitting the Consti- tution , he declared to be " the greatest interest of every true American . " Then again , in a remarkable letter to John Jay , he plainly said that he did not conceive " we can exist long as a nation ...
... Congress transmitting the Consti- tution , he declared to be " the greatest interest of every true American . " Then again , in a remarkable letter to John Jay , he plainly said that he did not conceive " we can exist long as a nation ...
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... Congress for a single term , beginning in December 1847 , being the only Whig representative from Illinois . His speeches during this brief period have many of the characteristics of his later productions . They are argumentative ...
... Congress for a single term , beginning in December 1847 , being the only Whig representative from Illinois . His speeches during this brief period have many of the characteristics of his later productions . They are argumentative ...
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Página 26 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 47 - Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen...
Página 5 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 25 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all...
Página 24 - Think nothing of me; take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever, but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry...
Página 9 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Página 43 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página 23 - And I will remind Judge Douglas and this audience, that while Mr. Jefferson was the owner of slaves, as undoubtedly he was, in speaking upon this very subject, he used the strong language that " he trembled for his country when he remembered that God was just...
Página 29 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Página 25 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.