The National Tragedy: Four Sermons Delivered Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the Life and Death of Abraham LincolnA. Taber & Brother, 1865 - 67 pages |
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... character . His life rounds before us in majestic fulness and completion ; and whether for the sober pen of the future historian , or for the dramatic demands of some coming Shakspeare , he could hardly have himself asked for a longer ...
... character . His life rounds before us in majestic fulness and completion ; and whether for the sober pen of the future historian , or for the dramatic demands of some coming Shakspeare , he could hardly have himself asked for a longer ...
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... character , so christian in its type of mercy , so constant always in all his words and deeds , so forever characterizing him in all history as our good president , we can hardly wish that he had been otherwise . His few public faults ...
... character , so christian in its type of mercy , so constant always in all his words and deeds , so forever characterizing him in all history as our good president , we can hardly wish that he had been otherwise . His few public faults ...
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... few great presidents . Here are elements of deed and character , which , if we will put them together , not essentially different from what they were in his life , will give us the hero that we have been asking for 18.
... few great presidents . Here are elements of deed and character , which , if we will put them together , not essentially different from what they were in his life , will give us the hero that we have been asking for 18.
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... characters as this that a nation's history makes up its most precious jewels . And this man , thus gifted , thus devoted , thus trusted in , and followed , and beloved , the nation buries to day : buries him - oh , bitter memory ! -from ...
... characters as this that a nation's history makes up its most precious jewels . And this man , thus gifted , thus devoted , thus trusted in , and followed , and beloved , the nation buries to day : buries him - oh , bitter memory ! -from ...
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... character we can afford to utter the simple , naked facts . All rhetori- cal adornment seems but tinsel where there is such pure gold . I would keep strictly within the limits of truth and soberness , while I attempt , though with very ...
... character we can afford to utter the simple , naked facts . All rhetori- cal adornment seems but tinsel where there is such pure gold . I would keep strictly within the limits of truth and soberness , while I attempt , though with very ...
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Page 54 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 67 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Page 57 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 57 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 61 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
Page 33 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 60 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 56 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything.
Page 56 - Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 56 - ... cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as, in the providence of God, it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it!