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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... voted , that no pupils from other towne should be received at their school , except Horace Greeley alone ; and , on entering the school , he took his place , young as he was , at the head of it , as it were , by acclamation . Nor did ...
... voted , that no pupils from other towne should be received at their school , except Horace Greeley alone ; and , on entering the school , he took his place , young as he was , at the head of it , as it were , by acclamation . Nor did ...
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... voted principally to the raising of hops . Misfortune still pursued him . His two years ' experience of hop - growing was not satisfac- tory . The hop - market was depressed . His own farm in Amherst BEGINNING THE WORLD ANEW . 21 was ...
... voted principally to the raising of hops . Misfortune still pursued him . His two years ' experience of hop - growing was not satisfac- tory . The hop - market was depressed . His own farm in Amherst BEGINNING THE WORLD ANEW . 21 was ...
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... to bestir themselves and de- mand that the New York Electors shou'd be chosen by a direct vote of the peo ple , and not by a forestalled Legislature This demand was vehemently re ་ sisted by Martin Van Buren and those who followed.
... to bestir themselves and de- mand that the New York Electors shou'd be chosen by a direct vote of the peo ple , and not by a forestalled Legislature This demand was vehemently re ་ sisted by Martin Van Buren and those who followed.
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... votes on an explicit understanding that he would vote for giving the choice of the Electors to the people . He accordingly voted , on one or two abstract propositions , that the choice ought to be given to the people . But when it came ...
... votes on an explicit understanding that he would vote for giving the choice of the Electors to the people . He accordingly voted , on one or two abstract propositions , that the choice ought to be given to the people . But when it came ...
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... voting population re- tain a vivid and distinct recollection of the outrage on Republican- ism and Popular Rights which made the ' Seventeen ' so unenviably notorious ! The Editor of the Tribune is of that proportion , be it small or ...
... voting population re- tain a vivid and distinct recollection of the outrage on Republican- ism and Popular Rights which made the ' Seventeen ' so unenviably notorious ! The Editor of the Tribune is of that proportion , be it small or ...
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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.