Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 pages |
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Page vi
... Union , and the concessions which they introduced into the constitution , no- body doubts that this was the leading idea of the men who founded our government . The declaration of American Independence crys- talized a religious teaching ...
... Union , and the concessions which they introduced into the constitution , no- body doubts that this was the leading idea of the men who founded our government . The declaration of American Independence crys- talized a religious teaching ...
Page xii
... Union Indifference— Importance of Mr. Stanton's Post - His Birth and Ancestry - His Educa- tion and Law Studies - County Attorney - State Reporter - Defends Mr. McNulty - Removes to Pittsburg - His Line of Business - The Wheeling Case ...
... Union Indifference— Importance of Mr. Stanton's Post - His Birth and Ancestry - His Educa- tion and Law Studies - County Attorney - State Reporter - Defends Mr. McNulty - Removes to Pittsburg - His Line of Business - The Wheeling Case ...
Page 40
... Union to be dissolved -I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided . It will become all one thing or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it , and place it ...
... Union to be dissolved -I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided . It will become all one thing or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it , and place it ...
Page 55
... Union appeals , beseeching true Union men to yield to disunionists , reversing the Divine rule , and calling , not the sinners , but the righteous to repent- ance - such as invocations of Washington , imploring men to unsay what ...
... Union appeals , beseeching true Union men to yield to disunionists , reversing the Divine rule , and calling , not the sinners , but the righteous to repent- ance - such as invocations of Washington , imploring men to unsay what ...
Page 67
... Union , he promised to maintain it as far as he could , and added : " Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and I shall perform it so far as practicable , un- less my rightful masters , the American people , shall ...
... Union , he promised to maintain it as far as he could , and added : " Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and I shall perform it so far as practicable , un- less my rightful masters , the American people , shall ...
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Page 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 329 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 41 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 107 - You lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain: Reckless, so it could point its paragraph,...