The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 páginas |
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... ELECTION TO CONGRESS . APPOINT- MENT AS CHIEF OF GENERAL ROSECRANS ' STAFF . -BATTLE OF CHICAMAUGA.- PROMOTION TO MAJOR - GENERAL . — - RESIGNATION . 4 ― - - THE next day after establishing the brigade camp , a heavy rain storm came on ...
... ELECTION TO CONGRESS . APPOINT- MENT AS CHIEF OF GENERAL ROSECRANS ' STAFF . -BATTLE OF CHICAMAUGA.- PROMOTION TO MAJOR - GENERAL . — - RESIGNATION . 4 ― - - THE next day after establishing the brigade camp , a heavy rain storm came on ...
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... election and the opening of the Congress to which he would be chosen . When he visited the President , and told him the circumstances , Mr. Lincoln bluntly remarked that there were generals enough already and plenty more to be had , but ...
... election and the opening of the Congress to which he would be chosen . When he visited the President , and told him the circumstances , Mr. Lincoln bluntly remarked that there were generals enough already and plenty more to be had , but ...
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... election to Congress , and took his seat on the same day in the House of Representatives , where he has been in continuous service since that day . The influence of General Garfield upon the Forty- Second regiment was unbounded . As ...
... election to Congress , and took his seat on the same day in the House of Representatives , where he has been in continuous service since that day . The influence of General Garfield upon the Forty- Second regiment was unbounded . As ...
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... election , the great majority , with which he had always been elected , fell off more than a thou- sand votes , because of his supposed espousal of the cause of rebellious criminals . Other cases followed with occasionally a like result ...
... election , the great majority , with which he had always been elected , fell off more than a thou- sand votes , because of his supposed espousal of the cause of rebellious criminals . Other cases followed with occasionally a like result ...
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... election of a majority of the directors was wholly within the power of the seven trustees . From all this it resulted that the Ames contract and the triple agreement , made in October , amounted , in fact , to a contract made by seven ...
... election of a majority of the directors was wholly within the power of the seven trustees . From all this it resulted that the Ames contract and the triple agreement , made in October , amounted , in fact , to a contract made by seven ...
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Página 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 226 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Página 218 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 228 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Página 219 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 331 - ... upon the party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The prosperity which is made possible in the South, by its great advantages of soil and climate, will never be realized until every voter can freely and safely support any party he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Página 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Página 328 - Republican firesides, where the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and...
Página 227 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.