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... cabinet maker , knowing his trade , but too lazy to make much use of it . He was entirely illiterate , but he also had social qualities , among them the ability to tell the sto- ries picked up in a vagrant life , and to make him- self ...
... cabinet maker , knowing his trade , but too lazy to make much use of it . He was entirely illiterate , but he also had social qualities , among them the ability to tell the sto- ries picked up in a vagrant life , and to make him- self ...
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... cabinet , and at the second hearing by Blair and George Ticknor Curtis . So intense was the feeling about the whole subject at issue that the judges instead of ordinary opinions wrote elaborate essays on all branches of the slavery ...
... cabinet , and at the second hearing by Blair and George Ticknor Curtis . So intense was the feeling about the whole subject at issue that the judges instead of ordinary opinions wrote elaborate essays on all branches of the slavery ...
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... cabinet . 4. And he shall procure the indorsement of the Republican State Committee . The second clause made trouble , especially as Lincoln's message was known , but this difficulty finally succumbed to the argument that he could ...
... cabinet . 4. And he shall procure the indorsement of the Republican State Committee . The second clause made trouble , especially as Lincoln's message was known , but this difficulty finally succumbed to the argument that he could ...
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... cabinet was partly com- posed of Southern conspirators , Washington was full of them , they were in every Northern city , and the President , although loyal , was so weak that he took in a confused and frightened way the position that ...
... cabinet was partly com- posed of Southern conspirators , Washington was full of them , they were in every Northern city , and the President , although loyal , was so weak that he took in a confused and frightened way the position that ...
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... cabinet , wrote on January 9 , 1861 , to Thaddeus Stevens , " He is a man to be depended on . He may , as all men may , make mistakes ; but the cause will be want of sufficient information , not of soundness of judgment or of ...
... cabinet , wrote on January 9 , 1861 , to Thaddeus Stevens , " He is a man to be depended on . He may , as all men may , make mistakes ; but the cause will be want of sufficient information , not of soundness of judgment or of ...
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Page 273 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 408 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will...
Page 407 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 402 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Page 314 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 273 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 370 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Page 170 - Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy ; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being...
Page 325 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Page 131 - I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife.