Lincolniana: In MemoriamWilliam V. Spencer, 1865 - 346 pages |
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... feels stunned at its loss . Peace to thy ashes , tried and trusty friend ! Thou hast fought a good fight ; thou hast earned a rich reward , - praise , honor , and everlasting love , from thy country ; approba- tion , benediction , and ...
... feels stunned at its loss . Peace to thy ashes , tried and trusty friend ! Thou hast fought a good fight ; thou hast earned a rich reward , - praise , honor , and everlasting love , from thy country ; approba- tion , benediction , and ...
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... feeling . This act will convert men who were only half converted before , will silence cavillers , and will bring men of all parties together in the cause of the nation . Wranglings will cease before this opened grave : they ought to ...
... feeling . This act will convert men who were only half converted before , will silence cavillers , and will bring men of all parties together in the cause of the nation . Wranglings will cease before this opened grave : they ought to ...
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... feeling ! On the morning of Saturday , the 15th April , I stood in Zion Church , in Charleston , a larger church than Mr. Beecher's , and from two to three thousand of these emancipated ones were there assembled . And when the name of ...
... feeling ! On the morning of Saturday , the 15th April , I stood in Zion Church , in Charleston , a larger church than Mr. Beecher's , and from two to three thousand of these emancipated ones were there assembled . And when the name of ...
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... the Pacific , and from the Gulf to the Lakes , were preparing for such a day of thanksgiving and jubilee , as never had been witnessed on the Western Continent . The national feeling , which during four years of civil war had.
... the Pacific , and from the Gulf to the Lakes , were preparing for such a day of thanksgiving and jubilee , as never had been witnessed on the Western Continent . The national feeling , which during four years of civil war had.
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In Memoriam William V. Spencer. feeling , which during four years of civil war had been repressed , was rising , and about to burst forth in such scenes and shouts of rejoicing , as would have made the " welkin ring . " The dove of peace ...
In Memoriam William V. Spencer. feeling , which during four years of civil war had been repressed , was rising , and about to burst forth in such scenes and shouts of rejoicing , as would have made the " welkin ring . " The dove of peace ...
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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.