Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherThis volume contains brief biographical sketches of several leading politicians, clergymen, reformers and thinkers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's day, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass. |
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... whole world , judging by past experience , said must inevitably shatter the republic to fragments , and yet , like a gallant ship in full sail , it has run down the terrible obstacle , and gone on triumphant , and is this day stronger ...
... whole world , judging by past experience , said must inevitably shatter the republic to fragments , and yet , like a gallant ship in full sail , it has run down the terrible obstacle , and gone on triumphant , and is this day stronger ...
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... whole life would not amount to more than six months . At nineteen he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand on a flat - boat , and on his re- turn he split the timber for a log cabin and built it , and enclosed ten acres of land ...
... whole life would not amount to more than six months . At nineteen he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand on a flat - boat , and on his re- turn he split the timber for a log cabin and built it , and enclosed ten acres of land ...
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... whole world of men and things as a side spectator , and the interest of the drama of life thus silently seen at first hand , was to him infinite- ly more interesting than any second hand imitation . " My life is story enough , " once ...
... whole world of men and things as a side spectator , and the interest of the drama of life thus silently seen at first hand , was to him infinite- ly more interesting than any second hand imitation . " My life is story enough , " once ...
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... whole of this evidence was a perjury . The audience , gradually stirred and changed in the temper of their minds by the previous series of skil fully displayed inconsistencies , rising from hate into sympathy , flamed suddenly up at ...
... whole of this evidence was a perjury . The audience , gradually stirred and changed in the temper of their minds by the previous series of skil fully displayed inconsistencies , rising from hate into sympathy , flamed suddenly up at ...
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... whole nature inclined him to be a harmonizer of conflicting parties , rather than a committed combatant on either side . He was firmly and from principle an enemy to slavery , but the ground he occupied in Congress was in some respects ...
... whole nature inclined him to be a harmonizer of conflicting parties , rather than a committed combatant on either side . He was firmly and from principle an enemy to slavery , but the ground he occupied in Congress was in some respects ...
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Page 40 - 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 80 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 333 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 81 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 80 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of 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 offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 68 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.