Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other Contemporaries"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface. |
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... fact , that the Unseen Power which controls nations and institutions had need of a Leonidas to hold the pass of our Thermopyla - had need of a Moses to lead the children of Africa out of their house of bondage . The food was corn bread ...
... fact , that the Unseen Power which controls nations and institutions had need of a Leonidas to hold the pass of our Thermopyla - had need of a Moses to lead the children of Africa out of their house of bondage . The food was corn bread ...
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... fact , he went to school but four months in his life . When Lincoln was seven years of age he removed to Spencer county , Indiana , and when he was twenty - one years old , he removed to Macon county , Illinois and one year later took ...
... fact , he went to school but four months in his life . When Lincoln was seven years of age he removed to Spencer county , Indiana , and when he was twenty - one years old , he removed to Macon county , Illinois and one year later took ...
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... fact , had no de . sire that way , but he seriously at one time contemplated be- coming a blacksmith . While meditating on the expediency of adopting this calling he was offered , and embraced the chance of becoming a merchant , and the ...
... fact , had no de . sire that way , but he seriously at one time contemplated be- coming a blacksmith . While meditating on the expediency of adopting this calling he was offered , and embraced the chance of becoming a merchant , and the ...
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... fact , that on the 27th of May , 1856 , Lincoln and I walked to the open space in front of the old Court House at Decatur ; and that Lincoln then said to me , in substance : " Here on this spot , twenty - six years ago , I made my first ...
... fact , that on the 27th of May , 1856 , Lincoln and I walked to the open space in front of the old Court House at Decatur ; and that Lincoln then said to me , in substance : " Here on this spot , twenty - six years ago , I made my first ...
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... fact , there was but one jury trial ; and Lincoln was not in that . I think all in the way of Court business that Lincoln did , at that term , was to make a brief argument to the Court , in a Chancery case . While Court was in session ...
... fact , there was but one jury trial ; and Lincoln was not in that . I think all in the way of Court business that Lincoln did , at that term , was to make a brief argument to the Court , in a Chancery case . While Court was in session ...
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Page 281 - Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Page 568 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 208 - 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.
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Page 568 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 312 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 389 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Page 468 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, • Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Page 350 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Page 464 - I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through Mie town.