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... slavery Dem- ocrats now in the Republican ranks . The political events of his administration are historical . Let me say a word about the He was at once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate public officer I ever knew . As ...
... slavery Dem- ocrats now in the Republican ranks . The political events of his administration are historical . Let me say a word about the He was at once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate public officer I ever knew . As ...
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... slave State , in 1854 , ' 5 , any more than I could the removal by Mr. Buchanan of Gover- nor Walker , in 1858 , for his refusal to sanction the Lecompton frauds ; but how different the toleration of Pierce from the per- secution of his ...
... slave State , in 1854 , ' 5 , any more than I could the removal by Mr. Buchanan of Gover- nor Walker , in 1858 , for his refusal to sanction the Lecompton frauds ; but how different the toleration of Pierce from the per- secution of his ...
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... slavery , just as he is to - day , when we closely agree in opposing it . I had met him on a former visit to Philadelphia , and invited him to come to Washington and sojourn under my roof . He came on the evening before the party in ...
... slavery , just as he is to - day , when we closely agree in opposing it . I had met him on a former visit to Philadelphia , and invited him to come to Washington and sojourn under my roof . He came on the evening before the party in ...
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... slavery views of those who were to dine with me next day . But there was no help for it ; indeed , I was glad to meet the gifted and polished Doctor . My own mind was far from clear as to the justice of the course of my party in regard ...
... slavery views of those who were to dine with me next day . But there was no help for it ; indeed , I was glad to meet the gifted and polished Doctor . My own mind was far from clear as to the justice of the course of my party in regard ...
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... slave law — a measure which roused him al- most to madness — and I was among the audience . He closed his harangue ... slavery ? How would you feel in such a case ? How do you think I would feel ? What would I do ? you ask . Well , I ...
... slave law — a measure which roused him al- most to madness — and I was among the audience . He closed his harangue ... slavery ? How would you feel in such a case ? How do you think I would feel ? What would I do ? you ask . Well , I ...
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Page 170 - 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 171 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 12 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 244 - I assure you and your mayor that I had hoped on this occasion, and upon all occasions during my life, that I shall do nothing inconsistent with the teachings of these holy and most sacred walls. I have never asked anything that does not breathe from those walls.
Page 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 170 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 245 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 91 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
Page 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...