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... slavery agitation , if only we accept his thesis that it was better to endure slavery than to suffer the horrors of civil war . In his opinion then , we had only a choice of evils . He chose to endure those we had , rather than to fly ...
... slavery agitation , if only we accept his thesis that it was better to endure slavery than to suffer the horrors of civil war . In his opinion then , we had only a choice of evils . He chose to endure those we had , rather than to fly ...
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... slavery men , who supported Van Buren and Adams in the election of that year . At the opening of the January session of the Legislature of Massachusetts for the year 1847 , Fletcher Webster , the eldest of Mr. Webster's sons , took his ...
... slavery men , who supported Van Buren and Adams in the election of that year . At the opening of the January session of the Legislature of Massachusetts for the year 1847 , Fletcher Webster , the eldest of Mr. Webster's sons , took his ...
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... slavery , but his hopes triumphed over his fears , and he closed with the utterance which has , as we trust , become imperishable truth : " Liberty and union , now and forever , one and inseparable . " Mr. Webster's emotional nature was ...
... slavery , but his hopes triumphed over his fears , and he closed with the utterance which has , as we trust , become imperishable truth : " Liberty and union , now and forever , one and inseparable . " Mr. Webster's emotional nature was ...
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... slavery , strove to preserve liberty and the Union , and of that long line he was the greatest . For seventy years the thoughtful men of all parties were forced to consider the system of slavery in America , its relations to the Union ...
... slavery , strove to preserve liberty and the Union , and of that long line he was the greatest . For seventy years the thoughtful men of all parties were forced to consider the system of slavery in America , its relations to the Union ...
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... slavery ques- tion would add to the peril . Slavery had given birth to one form of civiliza- tion , and freedom had given birth to another , and from the beginning the rule of the continent was the prize for which the parties had ...
... slavery ques- tion would add to the peril . Slavery had given birth to one form of civiliza- tion , and freedom had given birth to another , and from the beginning the rule of the continent was the prize for which the parties had ...
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Page 97 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 106 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 108 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 102 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 108 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 120 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 117 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 196 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...
Page 120 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation shall under God have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the 'earth...
Page 60 - Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke rose first from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.