American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters and Other Papers which Illustrate the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of AmericaThis work contains speeches, letters, and other papers from famous American that were influential in American history. |
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... field , upturned by the tillage of war , whence has sprung a new harvest of glorious and abounding grain not less precious than that oft reaped before . This work has naturally classified itself into three parts : the first including ...
... field , upturned by the tillage of war , whence has sprung a new harvest of glorious and abounding grain not less precious than that oft reaped before . This work has naturally classified itself into three parts : the first including ...
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... field , who so often made bare his arm for their salvation , will still be mindful of you , their offspring . May this Almighty Being graciously preside in all our councils . May he direct us to such measures as he himself shall approve ...
... field , who so often made bare his arm for their salvation , will still be mindful of you , their offspring . May this Almighty Being graciously preside in all our councils . May he direct us to such measures as he himself shall approve ...
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... field . New forces have oftener than once been raised in England more for civil than military service ; and , as elections for a new parliament have ap- proached , this door has been opened to introduce a large body of commissioned ...
... field . New forces have oftener than once been raised in England more for civil than military service ; and , as elections for a new parliament have ap- proached , this door has been opened to introduce a large body of commissioned ...
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... field with that fortitude which a consciousness of the justice of their cause inspires ; they do not jeopard their lives for a master who considers them only as the instruments of his ambition , and whom they regard only as the daily ...
... field with that fortitude which a consciousness of the justice of their cause inspires ; they do not jeopard their lives for a master who considers them only as the instruments of his ambition , and whom they regard only as the daily ...
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... field whenever danger calls ; let us be united and strengthen the hands of each other by promoting a general union among us . Much has been done by the committees of correspond- ence , for this and the other towns of this province ...
... field whenever danger calls ; let us be united and strengthen the hands of each other by promoting a general union among us . Much has been done by the committees of correspond- ence , for this and the other towns of this province ...
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Page 634 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 502 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 484 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 580 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 634 - South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled...
Page 638 - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that when he cometh and knocketh, they -may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching...
Page 162 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 192 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 634 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish...
Page 439 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...