Eight Years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865: Memoir and Speeches |
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... America as well as Europe . But , in anticipation of our own troubles , they attracted but little attention from our own citizens . Gen. Cass did me the favor to say that he would rest his policy , as Secretary of State , on the ...
... America as well as Europe . But , in anticipation of our own troubles , they attracted but little attention from our own citizens . Gen. Cass did me the favor to say that he would rest his policy , as Secretary of State , on the ...
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... American people have since done justice to Douglas . This eulogy will not be looked upon now as the emanation of a partial friend , but as a truthful analysis of a giant mind , energized into action by the throbbings of a great heart ...
... American people have since done justice to Douglas . This eulogy will not be looked upon now as the emanation of a partial friend , but as a truthful analysis of a giant mind , energized into action by the throbbings of a great heart ...
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... Americans , WASHINGTON , with his sword and the law , are , as Lamartine once said , the symbols standing erect at the cradles of these two distinct Liberties ! JEFFERSON DAVIS , haughty , self - willed , and persistent , full of ...
... Americans , WASHINGTON , with his sword and the law , are , as Lamartine once said , the symbols standing erect at the cradles of these two distinct Liberties ! JEFFERSON DAVIS , haughty , self - willed , and persistent , full of ...
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... Americans , like GILMER , VANCE , and others . Mr. BRIGGS , of New York , was the only one not a Democrat who voted for it . He had been an old Whig and never a Republican . The Republican roll , beginning with ADAMS and ending with ...
... Americans , like GILMER , VANCE , and others . Mr. BRIGGS , of New York , was the only one not a Democrat who voted for it . He had been an old Whig and never a Republican . The Republican roll , beginning with ADAMS and ending with ...
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... £ 50,000,000 sterling more than will be required to be raised by an equal population living not in England , but the United States of America ! " Two hundred and fifty million dollars is the burden which 34 EIGHT YEARS IN CONGRESS .
... £ 50,000,000 sterling more than will be required to be raised by an equal population living not in England , but the United States of America ! " Two hundred and fifty million dollars is the burden which 34 EIGHT YEARS IN CONGRESS .
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Page 195 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 310 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Page 194 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western...
Page 310 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus : and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 347 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 317 - Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.
Page 350 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 84 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Page 210 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of...