The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred PresidentJohn Gilmary Shea |
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Page 104
... covered up animosities , and in an hour brought a divided people with unity of grief and indivisible fellowship of anguish ! For myself , I can- not yet command that quietness of spirit needed for a just and tem- perate delineation of a ...
... covered up animosities , and in an hour brought a divided people with unity of grief and indivisible fellowship of anguish ! For myself , I can- not yet command that quietness of spirit needed for a just and tem- perate delineation of a ...
Page 112
... covering the face of the glass . In fact , everywhere were the marks of sorrow , which spoke of the be- reavement of ... covered otherwise with black velvet and crape . This was supported by four posts , heavily encased with the emblem ...
... covering the face of the glass . In fact , everywhere were the marks of sorrow , which spoke of the be- reavement of ... covered otherwise with black velvet and crape . This was supported by four posts , heavily encased with the emblem ...
Page 128
... covered with crape . The whole hearse is covered with cloth , velvet , crape , and alpaca . The seat is covered with hammer - cloth , and on each side is a splen- did black lamp . The hearse is fifteen feet high , and the coffin is so ...
... covered with crape . The whole hearse is covered with cloth , velvet , crape , and alpaca . The seat is covered with hammer - cloth , and on each side is a splen- did black lamp . The hearse is fifteen feet high , and the coffin is so ...
Page 134
... covered the marble steps . Inside there reigned a solemn silence , broken only by the thunders of artillery just ... covered with black , and the statues were completely draped , except the statue of Washington , which wore a black scarf ...
... covered the marble steps . Inside there reigned a solemn silence , broken only by the thunders of artillery just ... covered with black , and the statues were completely draped , except the statue of Washington , which wore a black scarf ...
Page 135
... covered with black . It was about nine feet long , three feet high , and four feet broad . The black cloth was ornamented with silver fringe and looped with silver stars . At each corner of the structure was the fasces , and on either ...
... covered with black . It was about nine feet long , three feet high , and four feet broad . The black cloth was ornamented with silver fringe and looped with silver stars . At each corner of the structure was the fasces , and on either ...
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Page 28 - Resolved, 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 51 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds ;. to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan ; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 44 - ... that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 33 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Page 44 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 32 - Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 46 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress, passed during the existing rebellion, with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Page 35 - By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.
Page 37 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 32 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed -with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.