Addresses and Papers by Andrew S. Draper ...: 1909-1910

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1910 - Education - 192 pages

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Page 64 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto :
Page 60 - Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles , a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off ! The flag is passing by!
Page 153 - Q. 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting, and following such decision as a rule of political action? Q. 4. Are you in favor of acquiring additional territory, in disregard of how such acquisition may affect the nation on the slavery question?
Page 73 - So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Page 149 - ... influence, so great that it is enough for many men to profess to believe anything, when they once find out that Judge Douglas professes to believe it. Consider also the attitude he occupies at the head of a large party— a party which he claims has a majority of all the voters in the country.
Page 179 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 64 - Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto — "In God i* our trust;" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Page 153 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 152 - I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union with such a constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make.
Page 152 - I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more slave States into the Union, even if the people want them?

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