The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 pages |
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... Ames.- His Op- position to the Increase of Salaries in Congress . - The Censure of his Constituents . His Explanation . - Restoration to Public Fa- vor , CHAPTER XVIII . LABORS IN CONGRESS . Appointment on Committees . - Variety of Work ...
... Ames.- His Op- position to the Increase of Salaries in Congress . - The Censure of his Constituents . His Explanation . - Restoration to Public Fa- vor , CHAPTER XVIII . LABORS IN CONGRESS . Appointment on Committees . - Variety of Work ...
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... Ames , and so clearly show that he could have had no con- nection with the schemes , that the record of the matter has now no historical value , except as showing how curiously public men may be beset , and how strangely misunderstood ...
... Ames , and so clearly show that he could have had no con- nection with the schemes , that the record of the matter has now no historical value , except as showing how curiously public men may be beset , and how strangely misunderstood ...
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... Ames in no case disclosed his pur- pose to these members , yet he hoped so to enlist their interest that they would be inclined to favor any legislation in aid of the Pacific railroad and its interest , and that he declared to the ...
... Ames in no case disclosed his pur- pose to these members , yet he hoped so to enlist their interest that they would be inclined to favor any legislation in aid of the Pacific railroad and its interest , and that he declared to the ...
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... Ames had any . Nor did either of them suppose he was guilty of any impro- priety , or even indelicacy , in becoming ... Ames , for $ 1,000 , and the accrued inter- est from the previous July ; that in June , 1868 , Mr. Ames paid me a ...
... Ames had any . Nor did either of them suppose he was guilty of any impro- priety , or even indelicacy , in becoming ... Ames , for $ 1,000 , and the accrued inter- est from the previous July ; that in June , 1868 , Mr. Ames paid me a ...
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... Ames made a contract with the Union Pacific railroad company to build six hundred and sixty - seven miles of road , from the one hundredth meridian westward , at rates ranging from $ 42,000 to $ 96,000 per mile . For executing this ...
... Ames made a contract with the Union Pacific railroad company to build six hundred and sixty - seven miles of road , from the one hundredth meridian westward , at rates ranging from $ 42,000 to $ 96,000 per mile . For executing this ...
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Page 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 226 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 218 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Page 228 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 219 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 331 - ... upon the party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The prosperity which is made possible in the South, by its great advantages of soil and climate, will never be realized until every voter can freely and safely support any party he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Page 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Page 328 - Republican firesides, where the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and...
Page 227 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.