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... Secretary of State . Colonel Benton was a sharp thorn in the side of the Administration on the Oregon question . His criticism was merciless , and stung the President and his premier to the quick . Accordingly The Pennsylvanian was ...
... Secretary of State . Colonel Benton was a sharp thorn in the side of the Administration on the Oregon question . His criticism was merciless , and stung the President and his premier to the quick . Accordingly The Pennsylvanian was ...
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... Secretary of the Senate . James Buchanan , as ex - President , heard the re- markable first message of the man who succeeded him , just as Andrew Johnson heard the still more remarkable inauguration of the man he succeeded . War ...
... Secretary of the Senate . James Buchanan , as ex - President , heard the re- markable first message of the man who succeeded him , just as Andrew Johnson heard the still more remarkable inauguration of the man he succeeded . War ...
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... Secretary of the Treasury , and as one of the members of the government of Jefferson Davis , let us " put our- selves in his place . " Another illustration of the force of circumstances is that of John Cabell Breckinridge , of Kentucky ...
... Secretary of the Treasury , and as one of the members of the government of Jefferson Davis , let us " put our- selves in his place . " Another illustration of the force of circumstances is that of John Cabell Breckinridge , of Kentucky ...
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... Secretary of State . The annexation of Texas was the reigning issue . Parties were divided upon it , and John Quincy Adams led the opposition . He was in his seventy - ninth year . Douglas was in his thirty - third . The con- trast was ...
... Secretary of State . The annexation of Texas was the reigning issue . Parties were divided upon it , and John Quincy Adams led the opposition . He was in his seventy - ninth year . Douglas was in his thirty - third . The con- trast was ...
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... Secretary of the Interior , and the other his Minister to England . In this same Congress , a Representative from Illinois , was E. D. Baker , afterward a Senator from Oregon , whose noble re- ply to Breckinridge , some fifteen years ...
... Secretary of the Interior , and the other his Minister to England . In this same Congress , a Representative from Illinois , was E. D. Baker , afterward a Senator from Oregon , whose noble re- ply to Breckinridge , some fifteen years ...
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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.