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... Horace Greeley , James T. Brady , E. B. Hart , John Brougham , Daniel E. Sickles , Edwin Forrest , Thurlow Weed , Dean Richmond , Henry G. Stebbins , Peter Cagger , congregated there in social intercourse , to discuss pol- itics and ...
... Horace Greeley , James T. Brady , E. B. Hart , John Brougham , Daniel E. Sickles , Edwin Forrest , Thurlow Weed , Dean Richmond , Henry G. Stebbins , Peter Cagger , congregated there in social intercourse , to discuss pol- itics and ...
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... Horace Greeley , August 22 , 1862 : " The sooner the national authority can be restored , the near- er the Union will be - the Union as it was . LINCOLN'S TERSENESS . 169 " If there be those who 168 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... Horace Greeley , August 22 , 1862 : " The sooner the national authority can be restored , the near- er the Union will be - the Union as it was . LINCOLN'S TERSENESS . 169 " If there be those who 168 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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... Horace Greeley . So history repeats as it runs ! Old Hickory made the modern Democracy , and Horace Greeley unmakes it ! The one presided at its marriage with the Federals in 1828-30 , the other follows it to its grave in 1872. The real ...
... Horace Greeley . So history repeats as it runs ! Old Hickory made the modern Democracy , and Horace Greeley unmakes it ! The one presided at its marriage with the Federals in 1828-30 , the other follows it to its grave in 1872. The real ...
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... Horace Greeley more enduring than the loftiest column of bronze or marble , though covered with bass - reliefs , and gorgeous in compliments carved by cunning hands . The last time I saw Mr. Greeley was at the Continental Hotel in ...
... Horace Greeley more enduring than the loftiest column of bronze or marble , though covered with bass - reliefs , and gorgeous in compliments carved by cunning hands . The last time I saw Mr. Greeley was at the Continental Hotel in ...
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... Horace Greeley ever was , and yet he never denies his friends a generous glass of wine . His habits are as simple as Abraham Lincoln's , yet his residence is a gem bright with exquisite decoration , and rich in every variety of art . He ...
... Horace Greeley ever was , and yet he never denies his friends a generous glass of wine . His habits are as simple as Abraham Lincoln's , yet his residence is a gem bright with exquisite decoration , and rich in every variety of art . He ...
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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 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 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 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 445 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
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 170 - 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.