The World's Great Classics: Orations of American oratorsTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 - Literature Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... Southern States . For all this there was not the slightest foundation in anything said or intimated by me . I did not utter a single word which any ingenuity could torture into an attack on the slavery of the South . I said only that it ...
... Southern States . For all this there was not the slightest foundation in anything said or intimated by me . I did not utter a single word which any ingenuity could torture into an attack on the slavery of the South . I said only that it ...
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... Southern conventions . In that of Virginia , Governor Randolph said : " I hope there is none here , who , considering the subject in the calm light of philosophy , will make an objection dishonor- able to Virginia - that at the moment ...
... Southern conventions . In that of Virginia , Governor Randolph said : " I hope there is none here , who , considering the subject in the calm light of philosophy , will make an objection dishonor- able to Virginia - that at the moment ...
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... Southern gentlemen themselves ; we must trust to those whose integrity of heart and magnanimity of feeling will lead them to a desire to maintain and disseminate truth , and who possess the means of its diffusion with the Southern ...
... Southern gentlemen themselves ; we must trust to those whose integrity of heart and magnanimity of feeling will lead them to a desire to maintain and disseminate truth , and who possess the means of its diffusion with the Southern ...
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... Southern statesman , Robert Y. Hayne , Senator from South Carolina , in the year 1830 , during a debate on the sale of public lands , had charged New England with a selfish policy in the matter of Western lands . It was on this occasion ...
... Southern statesman , Robert Y. Hayne , Senator from South Carolina , in the year 1830 , during a debate on the sale of public lands , had charged New England with a selfish policy in the matter of Western lands . It was on this occasion ...
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... Southern States negatively . The votes of nine States were not yet obtained , and thus the provision was again rejected by the Southern States . The perseverance of the North held out , and two years afterwards the object was attained ...
... Southern States negatively . The votes of nine States were not yet obtained , and thus the provision was again rejected by the Southern States . The perseverance of the North held out , and two years afterwards the object was attained ...
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Page 238 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 226 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Page 226 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 291 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 217 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 225 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses...
Page 260 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 226 - 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...
Page 226 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 217 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...