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... President said : " My good fellow , that lady doubtless means you well , and it is hardly fair for you to laugh at her gift . " " Well , Mr. President , " said the soldier , who recognized Mr. Lincoln , " how can I help laughing a ...
... President said : " My good fellow , that lady doubtless means you well , and it is hardly fair for you to laugh at her gift . " " Well , Mr. President , " said the soldier , who recognized Mr. Lincoln , " how can I help laughing a ...
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... President in his cabinet , Professor Henry , then in charge of the Smithsonian Institution , came in for a social chat with the President . The con- versation ran upon various unimportant themes , and presently a card was brought in by ...
... President in his cabinet , Professor Henry , then in charge of the Smithsonian Institution , came in for a social chat with the President . The con- versation ran upon various unimportant themes , and presently a card was brought in by ...
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... President assured him that Professor Henry and myself were to be trusted with any business of state , however secret ... President , with great gravity , closely examined the witness , but elicited nothing more from him than the fact ...
... President assured him that Professor Henry and myself were to be trusted with any business of state , however secret ... President , with great gravity , closely examined the witness , but elicited nothing more from him than the fact ...
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... President Lincoln's company . We were detained on the way by a storm , and spent one night on board the steamer anchored in the Potomac . In the course of conversation that even- ing , the President was communicative and in a con ...
... President Lincoln's company . We were detained on the way by a storm , and spent one night on board the steamer anchored in the Potomac . In the course of conversation that even- ing , the President was communicative and in a con ...
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... President good - naturedly parried this home - thrust , but gave no satisfactory answer . Afterward joining in the conversation , I intimated to the President that as he had not settled the mat- ter , there probably might be some ground ...
... President good - naturedly parried this home - thrust , but gave no satisfactory answer . Afterward joining in the conversation , I intimated to the President that as he had not settled the mat- ter , there probably might be some ground ...
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Page 279 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 223 - None shall be weary nor stumble among them ; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken : Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, Their horses...
Page 63 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great Northwest for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand.
Page 114 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 182 - States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal union of the States.
Page 221 - 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 235 - We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace, whose joyous expression cannot be restrained.
Page 222 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 179 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Page 58 - Department, and was to the effect that the army had been withdrawn from the south side of the Rappahannock, and was then "safely encamped" in its former position. The appearance of the President, as I read aloud these fateful words, was piteous. Never, as long as I knew him, did he seem to be so broken, so dispirited. and so ghostlike. Clasping his hands behind his back, he walked up and down the room, saying, "My God! my God! What will the country say!