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... Buchanan from the same motive - that of settling the slavery question , at least for the time , by even - handed justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union ...
... Buchanan from the same motive - that of settling the slavery question , at least for the time , by even - handed justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union ...
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... Buchanan Administration . He himself postponed the duel till the ballots were cast , and then he passed to his death . But that death saved California to the Union . The traitors who tried to hand her over to the rebellion were baffled ...
... Buchanan Administration . He himself postponed the duel till the ballots were cast , and then he passed to his death . But that death saved California to the Union . The traitors who tried to hand her over to the rebellion were baffled ...
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... Buchanan delighted to have him at his frequent dinner - parties , and to in- troduce him to his distinguished guests as a prodigy . He read much and recollected every thing , and thus acquired a style all his own . His declamation was ...
... Buchanan delighted to have him at his frequent dinner - parties , and to in- troduce him to his distinguished guests as a prodigy . He read much and recollected every thing , and thus acquired a style all his own . His declamation was ...
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... Buchanan , crowning as it did a long and gloomy procession of disasters . On the evening of that Friday a large number of my personal friends met at Mr. John F. Coyle's , whose guest I was , on Missouri Avenue , to celebrate the event ...
... Buchanan , crowning as it did a long and gloomy procession of disasters . On the evening of that Friday a large number of my personal friends met at Mr. John F. Coyle's , whose guest I was , on Missouri Avenue , to celebrate the event ...
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... Buchanan , as he knew , revived the Forrest letter , and had suggested that it be read from the Clerk's desk when Forney was nominated . Singularly enough , this had not been done , but , expecting that it would be , Colonel Forney had ...
... Buchanan , as he knew , revived the Forrest letter , and had suggested that it be read from the Clerk's desk when Forney was nominated . Singularly enough , this had not been done , but , expecting that it would be , Colonel Forney had ...
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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.