The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth to the Present TimeJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1872 - 548 pages |
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... Election to Congress .. ..... .. 248 CHAPTER XXI . THREE MONTHS IN CONGRESS . -The His Objects as a Member of Congress . His First Acts . - The Chaplain Hypoc risy . The Land Reform Bill.- Distributing the Documents . Offers a Novel ...
... Election to Congress .. ..... .. 248 CHAPTER XXI . THREE MONTHS IN CONGRESS . -The His Objects as a Member of Congress . His First Acts . - The Chaplain Hypoc risy . The Land Reform Bill.- Distributing the Documents . Offers a Novel ...
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... Election and Respon- sibility problem , and the manifold subtleties connected therewith . It grapples with a simpler question : — ' Am I in danger of being damned ? ' ' Is it likely that I shall go to hell , and be tormented with ...
... Election and Respon- sibility problem , and the manifold subtleties connected therewith . It grapples with a simpler question : — ' Am I in danger of being damned ? ' ' Is it likely that I shall go to hell , and be tormented with ...
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... Election of 1824. Five candidates for President were offered , but one of them was withdrawn , leaving four , all of them members in regular standing of the so- called Republican or Democratic party . But a caucus of one - fourth of the ...
... Election of 1824. Five candidates for President were offered , but one of them was withdrawn , leaving four , all of them members in regular standing of the so- called Republican or Democratic party . But a caucus of one - fourth of the ...
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... Election by the people became so strong and general that Gov. Yates , though himself a Crawford man , was impelled to call a special session of the Legisla ture for this express purpose . The Assembly passed a bill giving the choice to ...
... Election by the people became so strong and general that Gov. Yates , though himself a Crawford man , was impelled to call a special session of the Legisla ture for this express purpose . The Assembly passed a bill giving the choice to ...
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... elections . These things he rapidly and easily mastered , and treasured in his capacious memory , till we venture to say he has few if any equals at this time , in this particular department , in this or any other country . I never knew ...
... elections . These things he rapidly and easily mastered , and treasured in his capacious memory , till we venture to say he has few if any equals at this time , in this particular department , in this or any other country . I never knew ...
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Page 464 - What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 464 - seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Page 233 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need...
Page 464 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 129 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Page 15 - And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew.
Page 539 - Local self-government, with impartial suffrage, will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than any centralized power. The public welfare requires the supremacy of the civil over the military authority, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus. We demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with public order; for the State, self-government, and for the nation a return to the methods of peace and the constitutional limitations of power.
Page 473 - To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points, and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 464 - I would do it; and 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 the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 198 - Yes, I have a pair of eyes," replied Sam, "and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door ; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.