Addresses, Literary, Political, Legal & Miscellaneous, Volume 1Times Publishing Company, 1894 - Civilization |
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... and it was one of the most bitter local political struggles in the history of the State . The general interest felt in it may be appreciated when it is stated that this battle for Senator , at an ordinary off - year election , 9.
... and it was one of the most bitter local political struggles in the history of the State . The general interest felt in it may be appreciated when it is stated that this battle for Senator , at an ordinary off - year election , 9.
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... struggle of thought made him weary at forty - five , and he resolved to be content with his achieve- ments ; but the misery of idleness soon made him decide to grow old in learning . Grattan was an eager listener under Chatham , and ...
... struggle of thought made him weary at forty - five , and he resolved to be content with his achieve- ments ; but the misery of idleness soon made him decide to grow old in learning . Grattan was an eager listener under Chatham , and ...
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... struggles to rule in dishonor . Their ideal is suc- cess , and I would not say how many bow before that fickle divinity . A few of them win in their mean struggles only to find their stolen honors turn to burning ashes on their brows ...
... struggles to rule in dishonor . Their ideal is suc- cess , and I would not say how many bow before that fickle divinity . A few of them win in their mean struggles only to find their stolen honors turn to burning ashes on their brows ...
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... struggles and triumphs of men - through all the honors , crowns and titles lost and won . Look at the group of heroes that adorns the early his- tories of our late war . Not one of the faces there engraven on finest lines of steel for ...
... struggles and triumphs of men - through all the honors , crowns and titles lost and won . Look at the group of heroes that adorns the early his- tories of our late war . Not one of the faces there engraven on finest lines of steel for ...
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... struggles of the frail finite mind to comprehend the infinite . All that man can know of the Creator and His salvation is made so plain that the way- farer cannot err therein . The ideal may turn back through all the recorded and the ...
... struggles of the frail finite mind to comprehend the infinite . All that man can know of the Creator and His salvation is made so plain that the way- farer cannot err therein . The ideal may turn back through all the recorded and the ...
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Page 156 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 160 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 145 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 47 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do 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 this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 158 - That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 49 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 83 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain — that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 158 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 240 - It is not proposed to entirely relieve the country of this taxation. It must be extensively continued as the source of the Government's income ; and in a readjustment of our tariff the interests of American labor engaged in manufacture should be carefully considered, as well as the preservation of our manufacturers.
Page 161 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.