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... slavery Dem- ocrats now in the Republican ranks . The political events of his administration are historical . Let me say a word about the man . He was at once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate public officer I ever ...
... slavery Dem- ocrats now in the Republican ranks . The political events of his administration are historical . Let me say a word about the man . He was at once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate public officer I ever ...
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... slavery , just as he is to - day , when we closely agree in opposing it . I had met him on a former visit to Philadelphia , and invited him to come to Washington and sojourn under my roof . He came on the evening before the party in ...
... slavery , just as he is to - day , when we closely agree in opposing it . I had met him on a former visit to Philadelphia , and invited him to come to Washington and sojourn under my roof . He came on the evening before the party in ...
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... slavery views of those who were to dine with me next day . But there was no help for it ; indeed , I was glad to meet the gifted and polished Doctor . My own mind was far from clear as to the justice of the course of my party in regard ...
... slavery views of those who were to dine with me next day . But there was no help for it ; indeed , I was glad to meet the gifted and polished Doctor . My own mind was far from clear as to the justice of the course of my party in regard ...
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... slavery ? How would you feel in such a case ? How do you think I would feel ? What would I do ? you ask . Well , I will tell you . I would follow the aforesaid John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay ; follow them to the South ; follow them to ...
... slavery ? How would you feel in such a case ? How do you think I would feel ? What would I do ? you ask . Well , I will tell you . I would follow the aforesaid John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay ; follow them to the South ; follow them to ...
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... slavery into that Ter- ritory ; and that he would tranquilize the country by arresting the sectional tendencies of the times . He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to realize his mistake ; but he passed off before the war ...
... slavery into that Ter- ritory ; and that he would tranquilize the country by arresting the sectional tendencies of the times . He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to realize his mistake ; but he passed off before the war ...
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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.