Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a PictureHurd and Houghton, 1866 - 359 pages |
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... night occurring weekly , during the regular season , was always a trying one to the President . Whenever sympathy was expressed for him , however , he would turn it off playfully , asserting that the tug at his hand was much easier to ...
... night occurring weekly , during the regular season , was always a trying one to the President . Whenever sympathy was expressed for him , however , he would turn it off playfully , asserting that the tug at his hand was much easier to ...
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... night , February 10th , was an excit- ing one at the White House , the stables belonging to the mansion being burned to the ground . The loss most severely felt was of the two ponies , one of which had belonged to Willie Lincoln , the ...
... night , February 10th , was an excit- ing one at the White House , the stables belonging to the mansion being burned to the ground . The loss most severely felt was of the two ponies , one of which had belonged to Willie Lincoln , the ...
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... night in a most inhospitable re- gion . A terrific thunder - storm came up , to add to his trouble . He floundered along until his horse at length gave out . The lightning afforded him the only clew to his way , but the peals of thunder ...
... night in a most inhospitable re- gion . A terrific thunder - storm came up , to add to his trouble . He floundered along until his horse at length gave out . The lightning afforded him the only clew to his way , but the peals of thunder ...
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... night . Buchanan sat in his arm - chair in a corner of the room , white as a sheet , with the stump of a cigar in his mouth . The - - despatches were laid before us ; and so much vio- 54 SIX MONTHS AT THE WHITE HOUSE . XVII. ...
... night . Buchanan sat in his arm - chair in a corner of the room , white as a sheet , with the stump of a cigar in his mouth . The - - despatches were laid before us ; and so much vio- 54 SIX MONTHS AT THE WHITE HOUSE . XVII. ...
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... night , attended by a mounted escort ; but if he returned to town for a while after dark , he rode in unguarded , and often alone , in his open carriage . On more than one occasion the writer has gone through the streets of Washington ...
... night , attended by a mounted escort ; but if he returned to town for a while after dark , he rode in unguarded , and often alone , in his open carriage . On more than one occasion the writer has gone through the streets of Washington ...
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Page 7 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 35 - Help, angels ! make assay : Bow, stubborn knees ; and, heart, with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.
Page 102 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 73 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 204 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 43 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 69 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet.
Page 98 - Who beats his wife and a' that, Be nothing but a rascal boor, Nor half a man for a' that. It comes to this, dear Brother Burns — The truth is old, and a' that — "The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gold for a...
Page 44 - Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
Page 173 - On Thursday of last week two ladies from Tennessee came before the President, asking the release of their husbands, held as prisoners of war at Johnson's Island. They were put off until Friday, when they came again, and were again put off until Saturday. At each of the interviews one of the ladies urged that her husband was a religious man. On Saturday...