Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 pages |
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... - perhaps a hundred , we have in the Republican ranks . Then I say I wish it to be distinctly understood and borne in mind , that we have to fight this battle without many -perhaps without any of the external aids which are brought 4.
... - perhaps a hundred , we have in the Republican ranks . Then I say I wish it to be distinctly understood and borne in mind , that we have to fight this battle without many -perhaps without any of the external aids which are brought 4.
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... mind . And one reason for this is , that they have been informal and undiplomatic . They have more resem- bled a father's talks to his children than a State paper . And they have had that relish and smack of the soil , that appeal to ...
... mind . And one reason for this is , that they have been informal and undiplomatic . They have more resem- bled a father's talks to his children than a State paper . And they have had that relish and smack of the soil , that appeal to ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe. HIS LIFE'S LESSON . 61 ing the influence of a mind both strong and generous . " 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 ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe. HIS LIFE'S LESSON . 61 ing the influence of a mind both strong and generous . " 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 ...
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... mind , with a quiet endurance , gilded at times by a gleam of the grim , solemn humor peculiar to himself . " I cannot make generals , " he said once , " I would if I could . " At another , to an important man who had been pressing some ...
... mind , with a quiet endurance , gilded at times by a gleam of the grim , solemn humor peculiar to himself . " I cannot make generals , " he said once , " I would if I could . " At another , to an important man who had been pressing some ...
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... mind . The pow- er of looking at men and things with reference to their humorous side , enabled him to bear without irritation many things in the political joltings and jarrings of his lot , which would have driven a more nervous man ...
... mind . The pow- er of looking at men and things with reference to their humorous side , enabled him to bear without irritation many things in the political joltings and jarrings of his lot , which would have driven a more nervous man ...
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Page 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 329 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 41 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 40 - 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 107 - You lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain: Reckless, so it could point its paragraph,...