The National Tragedy: Four Sermons Delivered Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the Life and Death of Abraham LincolnA. Taber & Brother, 1865 - 67 pages |
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... passes on this little planet , among our little race . - Yes , my friends , in this hour of all hours do we need faith in God , —in a God who is a present Providence and Ruler in the earth , and whose designs cannot be circumvented by ...
... passes on this little planet , among our little race . - Yes , my friends , in this hour of all hours do we need faith in God , —in a God who is a present Providence and Ruler in the earth , and whose designs cannot be circumvented by ...
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... pass away : for Heaven is already won . The memorial of this man , my friends , is with us . Great in personal influence and power , great in logical and practi- cal ability , great in all moral and humane faculties , great in religious ...
... pass away : for Heaven is already won . The memorial of this man , my friends , is with us . Great in personal influence and power , great in logical and practi- cal ability , great in all moral and humane faculties , great in religious ...
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... pass before he is hailed as leader , his powerful sword can never be sheathed again . In the contest concerning Kansas , and in the famous Senatorial campaign with Stephen A. Douglas , which grew out of the Kansas conflict , it is ...
... pass before he is hailed as leader , his powerful sword can never be sheathed again . In the contest concerning Kansas , and in the famous Senatorial campaign with Stephen A. Douglas , which grew out of the Kansas conflict , it is ...
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... pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation . * We even we here - hold the power and bear the responsibility . In giving freedom to the slave we assure * * -- H f T freedom to the free - honorable alike in what 57.
... pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation . * We even we here - hold the power and bear the responsibility . In giving freedom to the slave we assure * * -- H f T freedom to the free - honorable alike in what 57.
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... pass away . Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk , and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with ...
... pass away . Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk , and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with ...
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Page 66 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 56 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? 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 of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 66 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 60 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 63 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
Page 58 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way to all — gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
Page 35 - 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 62 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 58 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything.