 | Felix Gregory De Fontaine - Antislavery movements - 1861 - 78 pages
...when it has once lapped blood. The elevation of their candidate is far from being the consummation of their aims. It is only the beginning of that consummation...history be not a lie, there will be coercion enough till tbe end of the beginning is reached, and the dreadful banquet of slaughter and ruin shall glut the... | |
 | Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 442 pages
...within assigned limits. Though Nature and Providence should send forth its branches like the banyan tree, to take root in congenial soil, here is a power...AND ISLAND 10.— RELATIVE FORCES.— COMPLETE LIST OF CONFEDERATE BATTERIES AND THEIR OFFICERS.-INCIDENTS OF THE ENGAGEMENT. i I WAS a pretty fair Union... | |
 | Thomas Cary Johnson - Massachusetts - 1906 - 726 pages
...when it has once lapped blood. The elevation of their candidates is far from being the consummation of their aims. It is only the beginning of that consummation; and, if all history be not a lie, there will be cohesion enough till the end of the beginning is reached, and the dreadful banquet of slaughter and... | |
 | Mitchell Snay - History - 1993 - 300 pages
...sectional controversy, Palmer warned: "The elevation of their candidate is far from being the consummation of their aims; it is only the beginning of that consummation; and, if all history be not a lie, there will be cohesion enough till the end of the beginning is reached, and the dreadful banquet of slaughter and... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1996 - 456 pages
...when it has once lapped blood. The elevation of their candidate is far from being the consummation of their aims. It is only the beginning of that consummation; and, if all history be not a lie, there will be cohersion enough till the end of the beginning is reached, and the dreadful banquet of slaughter and... | |
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The first is, that however mixed the party, abolitionism is clearly its informing and actuating soul; and fanaticism is a blood-hound that never bolts its track when it has once lapped blood. The elevation of their candidate is far from being the consummation... 