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... REPUBLIC . Republic . Do ...... Do ..... Do ...... Buenos Ayres .... Do ...... Do ...... Do ...... Do ....... BELGIUM . Government of Belgium ....... Governor of the Province .... Department of the Interior ... President of the Congress ...
... REPUBLIC . Republic . Do ...... Do ..... Do ...... Buenos Ayres .... Do ...... Do ...... Do ...... Do ....... BELGIUM . Government of Belgium ....... Governor of the Province .... Department of the Interior ... President of the Congress ...
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... republic to be put at half- mast , as sign of mourning for the death of the illustrious citizen President of the United States of America . The Argentine government laments with the most profound sorrow the irre- parable loss that ...
... republic to be put at half- mast , as sign of mourning for the death of the illustrious citizen President of the United States of America . The Argentine government laments with the most profound sorrow the irre- parable loss that ...
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... republic you so nobly represent . May it please your excellency to accept the sympathy of this province , and the respect that I have always had for the eminent citizen that the country of your excellency has just lost . I salute your ...
... republic you so nobly represent . May it please your excellency to accept the sympathy of this province , and the respect that I have always had for the eminent citizen that the country of your excellency has just lost . I salute your ...
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... republic , hastens to present to his excellency General Webb , envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America , the testimony of his profound grief caused by the sad incident that has put all the ...
... republic , hastens to present to his excellency General Webb , envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America , the testimony of his profound grief caused by the sad incident that has put all the ...
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... Republic of Chili , Santiago , May 30 , 1865 . SIR : The government of the republic has been penetrated by grief as sin- cere as profound in receiving the melancholy intelligence of the crime which has just snatched from the United ...
... Republic of Chili , Santiago , May 30 , 1865 . SIR : The government of the republic has been penetrated by grief as sin- cere as profound in receiving the melancholy intelligence of the crime which has just snatched from the United ...
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Page 129 - 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 : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 83 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 399 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 388 - No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON.
Page 83 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid whi.ch sustained him, and...
Page 84 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 83 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 418 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking- off...
Page 83 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 320 - Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous : but the way of the ungodly shall perish.