Lincolniana: In MemoriamWilliam V. Spencer, 1865 - 346 pages |
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... darkness has come upon our exhilaration ! How God has called in this solemn day his terrors round about us ! In what bewilder- ment of soul , as men stunned and prostrate , we wait for the next tidings ! So short an interval , and yet ...
... darkness has come upon our exhilaration ! How God has called in this solemn day his terrors round about us ! In what bewilder- ment of soul , as men stunned and prostrate , we wait for the next tidings ! So short an interval , and yet ...
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... dark and tragic events of history ; signal and memorable as indicating to what enormity of crime defeated hate and ... darkness and secrecy . There prowled the assassin marking his victim . Lock and door had been pre- viously tampered ...
... dark and tragic events of history ; signal and memorable as indicating to what enormity of crime defeated hate and ... darkness and secrecy . There prowled the assassin marking his victim . Lock and door had been pre- viously tampered ...
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... darkness behind his victim , — the murderer fired the fatal shot . The bullet lodged in the President's brain , and instantly deprived him of conscious existence . The physical mechanism of the strong frame maintained its action some ...
... darkness behind his victim , — the murderer fired the fatal shot . The bullet lodged in the President's brain , and instantly deprived him of conscious existence . The physical mechanism of the strong frame maintained its action some ...
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... dark . Disregarding the sacred obligations involved in high na- tional trusts , it made use of its official opportunities to destroy the nationality it had undertaken to serve . By stealthy distribu- tion of the military stores and ...
... dark . Disregarding the sacred obligations involved in high na- tional trusts , it made use of its official opportunities to destroy the nationality it had undertaken to serve . By stealthy distribu- tion of the military stores and ...
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... darkness behind , fired that deadly ball into the brain of Presi- dent Lincoln , the emancipator from bondage of four millions of human beings . The assassination of Mr. Lincoln was not a thought born of last week or last month . It was ...
... darkness behind , fired that deadly ball into the brain of Presi- dent Lincoln , the emancipator from bondage of four millions of human beings . The assassination of Mr. Lincoln was not a thought born of last week or last month . It was ...
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Page 323 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 29 - 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 orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and...
Page 107 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 171 - And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Page 109 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more ; the merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stones and of pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory...
Page 29 - ... 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 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...
Page 323 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 108 - And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, Shall bewail her, and lament for her, When they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, Saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come.
Page 135 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 161 - 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.