 I rejoice before God to-day for every word that I have spoken counselling peace; but I rejoice also with an especially profound gratitude, that now, the first time in my anti-slavery life, I speak under the stars and stripes, and welcome the tread of...  The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips - Page 213by George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wendell Phillips - 1864 - 580 pages
...expediency of acknowledging a Southern Confederacy, and the peaceful separation of these tlrfrty-four States. One of the journals announces to you that...the tread of Massachusetts men marshalled for war. j^Enthusiastic • cheering.] No matter what the past has been or said ; to-day the slave a.sks God... | |
 | WILLIAM SCHOULER - 1868
...have said has counselled peace; and I rejoice, for the first time in my anti-slavery life, I stand under the stars and stripes, and welcome the tread of Massachusetts men. [Great applause.] No matter what may have been done in the past. To-day the slave asks but. a sight... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1909 - 588 pages
...anything, he said ; he needed everything he had been saying to justify so momentous an evil as civil war. I rejoice before God to-day for every word that I...the tread of Massachusetts men marshalled for war. No matter what the past has been or said ; to-day the slave asks God for a sight of this banner, and... | |
 | Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1882 - 790 pages
...welcome " hearty and hot," and said : " I rejoice, for the first time in my Antislavery life, I stand under the stars and stripes, and welcome the tread of Massachusetts men." On the sjth, Mr. Everett, in 1 For much of the statistical information con- in two volumes (one general,... | |
 | United States. 49th Congress, 2d session, 1886-1887 - 1887 - 236 pages
...most solemn justification. I rejoice before God to-day for every word that I have spoken counseling peace, but I rejoice also with an especially profound...Stripes, and welcome the tread of Massachusetts men marshaled for war. It was not given to- all in those dark days to look through the rising clouds of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...journals announces to you that I come here this morning to retract those opinions. No, not one of them ! I need them all, — every word I have spoken this...the tread of Massachusetts men marshalled for war. No matter what the past has been or said ; to-day the slave asks God for a sight of this banner, and... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - American literature - 1894 - 1036 pages
...rejoice more profoundly still that now, for the first time in my antislavery life, I speak beneath the Stars and Stripes, and welcome the tread of Massachusetts men marshalled for war." It was Sunday morning, but the vast audience rose to their feet and cheered long. The Sixth Massachusetts... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1894 - 1032 pages
...rejoice more profoundly still that now, for the first time in my antislavery life, I speak beneath the Stars and Stripes, and welcome the tread of Massachusetts men marshalled for war." It was Sunday morning, but the vast audience rose to their feet and cheered long. The Sixth Massachusetts... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 542 pages
...journals announces to you that I come here this morning to retract those opinions. No, not one of them ! I need them all — every word I have spoken this...the tread of Massachusetts men marshalled for war. No matter what the past has been or said ; to-day the slave asks God for a sight of this banner, and... | |
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