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... leader of that his last great work . Ex - Mayor John Swift , who is still liv- ing in Philadelphia , in the 84th year of his age , dropped in at my editorial rooms the morning after Mr. Clay's arrival , in com- pany with my esteemed ...
... leader of that his last great work . Ex - Mayor John Swift , who is still liv- ing in Philadelphia , in the 84th year of his age , dropped in at my editorial rooms the morning after Mr. Clay's arrival , in com- pany with my esteemed ...
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... leaders at an early day , and they resolved to defeat my re- election as Clerk of the House . My mistaken " Forrest Letter " was made their pretext . I say mistaken , for , though I wrote it with the most honest purpose , I did not ...
... leaders at an early day , and they resolved to defeat my re- election as Clerk of the House . My mistaken " Forrest Letter " was made their pretext . I say mistaken , for , though I wrote it with the most honest purpose , I did not ...
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... leaders of the Democratic party , North and South , among them Mr. Slidell , Mr. Breckinridge , and I think Mr. Douglas . One of my guests was Dr. William Elder , my friend at that day , though we differed widely about slavery , just as ...
... leaders of the Democratic party , North and South , among them Mr. Slidell , Mr. Breckinridge , and I think Mr. Douglas . One of my guests was Dr. William Elder , my friend at that day , though we differed widely about slavery , just as ...
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... leaders knew that meant something more than hostility to foreigners and Catho- lics , and was in fact the first mutterings of a far greater tem- pest . The Southern leaders of the day were not yet ready to hazard a rebellion . They were ...
... leaders knew that meant something more than hostility to foreigners and Catho- lics , and was in fact the first mutterings of a far greater tem- pest . The Southern leaders of the day were not yet ready to hazard a rebellion . They were ...
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... leader - a leader blindly followed and blindly obeyed . But he never fell into their habits of dissipation , and perhaps his un- broken command over them resulted from his silent and sober nature . The foreman of a fire - company and ...
... leader - a leader blindly followed and blindly obeyed . But he never fell into their habits of dissipation , and perhaps his un- broken command over them resulted from his silent and sober nature . The foreman of a fire - company and ...
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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.