 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 264 páginas
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life," he continued : — " Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 páginas
...leading object is to elevate the condition ofmen, — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, — to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." " I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand and appreciate this. * * ISTot one common... | |
 | 1863 - 302 páginas
...leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all ; to...of the Government for Whose existence we contend. " It will be perceived that, in the first clause of this extract!, Mr. Lincoln alludes to the phrase... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Pennsylvania - 1927 - 244 páginas
...shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all a fair chance in the race of life. This is the leading object of the government for whose existence we contend." Great words ! And t<r accomplish that purpose in our national life the Civil War was inevitable. It... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 páginas
...[of government] is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to...unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." Not much monopoly in this. This is the plain phrase of the people put into their organic law and interpreted... | |
 | James Quay Howard - 1876 - 278 páginas
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life," shall tread no step backward. Penetrated and sustained by a conviction that in this contest the Union... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1876 - 352 páginas
...to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, and to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life ' — shall tread no more steps backward. I shall enter upon my part of the labors of the canvass,... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 páginas
...lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to offer all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race...of the government for whose existence we contend." Reminding Congress that " the plain people " understood and appreciated the contest, he said, " It... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 670 páginas
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit of all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." Contrast these two democracies—the one striking fetters off from the oppressed ; the other protecting... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1882 - 680 páginas
...leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to '¡ft artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of li:e. Yielding to partial and (• mporary departures from necessity, this is the leading object of... | |
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This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders... 
