Abraham Lincoln; the Tribute of a Century, 1809-1909: Commemorative of the Lincoln Centenary and Containing the Principal Speeches Made in Connection TherewithNathan William MacChesney A.C. McClurg & Company, 1910 - 555 pages |
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... expression in all the varied activities of life . It is sometimes commented upon as remarkable that a man like Lincoln should have risen from conditions such as marked his youth and early career . Americans then , and Americans now ...
... expression in all the varied activities of life . It is sometimes commented upon as remarkable that a man like Lincoln should have risen from conditions such as marked his youth and early career . Americans then , and Americans now ...
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... expression of the great nature that was behind it . Then we also say of Lincoln that he saw things with his own eyes . And it is very interesting that we can pick out individual men to say that of them . The opposite of the proposition ...
... expression of the great nature that was behind it . Then we also say of Lincoln that he saw things with his own eyes . And it is very interesting that we can pick out individual men to say that of them . The opposite of the proposition ...
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... expression in the re- bellion of Louis Papineau in Lower Canada , and of William Lyon Mackenzie in Upper Canada . That rebellion was sup- pressed with little bloodshed , but the power of the oligarchy was broken . The rights for which ...
... expression in the re- bellion of Louis Papineau in Lower Canada , and of William Lyon Mackenzie in Upper Canada . That rebellion was sup- pressed with little bloodshed , but the power of the oligarchy was broken . The rights for which ...
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... expression of our nation's poetry . For such humor as appeals to us has all the elements of true poetic apprehension of great principles . It reads universal facts in the guise of individual occurrence . Our humor is our philosophic ...
... expression of our nation's poetry . For such humor as appeals to us has all the elements of true poetic apprehension of great principles . It reads universal facts in the guise of individual occurrence . Our humor is our philosophic ...
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... expression of deep sadness . It seemed as though in the lines of his brow , in the look of his eyes , were symbolized all the pathos of those four years of doubt and daring , of suffering and striving . Republics are never so well ...
... expression of deep sadness . It seemed as though in the lines of his brow , in the look of his eyes , were symbolized all the pathos of those four years of doubt and daring , of suffering and striving . Republics are never so well ...
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Page 204 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 257 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said — "that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 184 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 150 - 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 430 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 150 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 275 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 268 - All they ask. we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Page 203 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Page 111 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.