Eight Years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865: Memoir and Speeches |
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Page 361 - up the broken-hearted, and to them that mourn in Zion, give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. * * * And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, * * * as the earth bringeth forth her
Page 214 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ; neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, ha ! ha ! and he smelleth the battle afar off.
Page 198 - a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Page 159 - the high seas shall be exempted from seizure by public armed vessels of the other belligerent, except it be contraband.' 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must
Page 198 - so truly prophetic as a statesman as when he said : " In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have "been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, northern and southern, Atlantic and Western, whence designing men may endeavor to
Page 359 - proper representatives, have done so from no love of slavery ; but because, in the language of the Chicago platform, they would, by preserving State institutions, " preserve the balance of power, on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depended.
Page 398 - 12. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which shall authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere within any State with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 207 - man Whose life in low estate began ; Who grasped the skirts of happy chance, Breasted the blows of circumstance, And made by force his merit known ; And lived 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, The
Page 302 - that side ? Not as it was met in the other branch of Congress ; for there it was not pretended that this bill was not intended to call out the militia. Here, it is a bill for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes, as if you could, by a dash