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... uttered were indicative of the most exalted patriot- ism . He said : " Many countries have lost their liberties and ours may lose hers ; but if she shall , be it my proudest plume , not that I was the last to desert , but that I never ...
... uttered were indicative of the most exalted patriot- ism . He said : " Many countries have lost their liberties and ours may lose hers ; but if she shall , be it my proudest plume , not that I was the last to desert , but that I never ...
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... uttered during this time , and much that is immortal in literature issued from his pen . During his Congressional term the affairs of the firm had been conducted by the junior member , so that , when he returned , he found a flourishing ...
... uttered during this time , and much that is immortal in literature issued from his pen . During his Congressional term the affairs of the firm had been conducted by the junior member , so that , when he returned , he found a flourishing ...
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... utter- most to take advantage of it . During the campaign of 1852 , he made a few speeches for General Scott , the Whig candidate , but they were not marked by much display of ability . Douglas , in opening the campaign for the ...
... utter- most to take advantage of it . During the campaign of 1852 , he made a few speeches for General Scott , the Whig candidate , but they were not marked by much display of ability . Douglas , in opening the campaign for the ...
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... utter ruin because the slave - power became predominant . As civilization advanced in Europe , slavery became more and more distasteful to the people , until the nefarious trade , which had been a mine of wealth , almost ceased . In ...
... utter ruin because the slave - power became predominant . As civilization advanced in Europe , slavery became more and more distasteful to the people , until the nefarious trade , which had been a mine of wealth , almost ceased . In ...
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... utter disregard of human rights , shown on every side , had been inex- pressibly shocking to him , yet he had never taken a prominent stand against it , and had looked with sus- picion upon the Abolitionists and their bold efforts to ...
... utter disregard of human rights , shown on every side , had been inex- pressibly shocking to him , yet he had never taken a prominent stand against it , and had looked with sus- picion upon the Abolitionists and their bold efforts to ...
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Page 192 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 308 - Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 308 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 179 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 309 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 309 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom...
Page 195 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth 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 259 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Page 241 - 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 230 - 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 in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union as it was.