Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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Page 39
... armed interference with even the humblest republic of the Western Hemisphere . A new sense of power inspired swagger- ing , bragging American politics . So the Greeks bragged when Alexander overthrew Persia ; so Christendom bragged when ...
... armed interference with even the humblest republic of the Western Hemisphere . A new sense of power inspired swagger- ing , bragging American politics . So the Greeks bragged when Alexander overthrew Persia ; so Christendom bragged when ...
Page 97
... armed resistance to the national authority was acceptable as the alternative to " the yoke of a black Republican Presi- dent . " If any secret voice of this germinating treason reached Lincoln at Springfield he kept it to himself . But ...
... armed resistance to the national authority was acceptable as the alternative to " the yoke of a black Republican Presi- dent . " If any secret voice of this germinating treason reached Lincoln at Springfield he kept it to himself . But ...
Page 136
... armed forces of the nation . His own feelings were nothing ; the fate of the Union was everything . Stan- ton had been an honest and masterful mem- ber of Buchanan's Cabinet . McClellan had made a glorious answer to the Bull Run defeat ...
... armed forces of the nation . His own feelings were nothing ; the fate of the Union was everything . Stan- ton had been an honest and masterful mem- ber of Buchanan's Cabinet . McClellan had made a glorious answer to the Bull Run defeat ...
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