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... characters I have attempted to describe in these plain and unpretending " Anecdotes , " and I feel that I take no liberty in dedicating this volume to you . From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate ...
... characters I have attempted to describe in these plain and unpretending " Anecdotes , " and I feel that I take no liberty in dedicating this volume to you . From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate ...
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... , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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... character of George Washington , he speaks of his skill and good fortune in the selection and purchase of real estate , and his fine forecast of the destiny of Virginia and the West . In this respect Stephen A. Douglas resembled the ...
... character of George Washington , he speaks of his skill and good fortune in the selection and purchase of real estate , and his fine forecast of the destiny of Virginia and the West . In this respect Stephen A. Douglas resembled the ...
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... character . Born in the District of Columbia in 1818 , and killed in a duel in September of 1859 , his short career was a succession of strange events . Twenty - five years of it were spent in New York in the rudest scenes , and more ...
... character . Born in the District of Columbia in 1818 , and killed in a duel in September of 1859 , his short career was a succession of strange events . Twenty - five years of it were spent in New York in the rudest scenes , and more ...
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... character , ever threw off more sponta- neous jokes . Mr. Stevens rarely told a story . He was strong in repartee , in retort , in quiet interrogatory . He must have been terrible at the cross - examination of a witness . There is ...
... character , ever threw off more sponta- neous jokes . Mr. Stevens rarely told a story . He was strong in repartee , in retort , in quiet interrogatory . He must have been terrible at the cross - examination of a witness . There is ...
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Page 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 12 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 445 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHBOP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 169 - 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.
Page 245 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.