 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. " The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to you as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to us all. While I have... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...attention and engrosses the energies ol the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is...civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is...impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, ia as well known to the public as to myself, and it is,...impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...and engrosses the energies •of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends is as...encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no iprediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...attention and engross the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is...civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is...impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. "While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...and engrosses the energies of th« nation, little that is new could be presented. 2. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is...future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. 3. On the occasion corresponding to this, four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an... | |
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The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. 
