Proceedings at the ... Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York, Volume 14 |
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Abraham Lincoln administration ALFRED ANSON G anxiety for office Applause and cheers BABCOCK BERIAH WILKINS BIRTHDAY OF ABRAHAM BLOOMINGDALE century character Charles Sumner CHAS CHAUNCEY CLARK Constitution courage DEPEW DINNER COMMITTEE DORR'S Douglas duty EDWIN MARKHAM emancipation EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION EUGENE H expressed flag FRANK free government friend of capital friends of human genius GEORGE Goebel Griggs GRUBER Guest Hampton Roads HARLON Harvard College heart HENRY HENRY L honor human Illinois inspiration institutions JAMES JENKINSON Jenks Jersey JOHN JOHN W JOSEPH judgment Kentucky KENYON labor Laughter laws liberty LINCOLN DINNER living loyalty MALTBIE matchless ment MERRITT millions mind MISS Monitor nation nineteenth patriotic plause political conscience politician President principles problems prosperity questions republic Republican Club Republican party ROBT SAMUEL SCHULMAN Secretary slavery SMITH speech spirit STERN suffrage Table territory tion to-day to-night twentieth Union unselfish voice WILLIAM ΙΟ
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Page 17 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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...
Page 18 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 17 - I answer emphatically, as Mr Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State constitution.
Page 18 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all National Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 31 - Up from log cabin to the Capitol, One fire was on his spirit, one resolve — To send the keen ax to the root of wrong, Clearing a free way for the feet of God. And evermore he burned to do his deed With the fine stroke and gesture of a king...
Page 31 - The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things...
Page 31 - He held the ridgepole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a growing tree — Held on through blame and faltered not at praise, And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a kingly cedar green with boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Page 31 - The tolerance and equity of light That gives as freely to the shrinking flower As to the great oak flaring to the wind — To the grave's low hill as to the Matterhorn That shoulders out the sky.
Page 31 - WHEN the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need. She took the tried clay of the common road — Clay warm yet with the genial heat of Earth, Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy; Tempered the heap with thrill of human tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame to light That tender, tragic, ever-changing face.
Page 19 - I believe in the Monitor and her commander. If Captain Worden does not give a good account of the Monitor and of himself, I shall have made a mistake in following my judgment for the first time since I have been here, Captain. I have not made a mistake in following my clear judgment of men since this war began. I followed that judgment when I gave Worden the command of the Monitor. I would...