 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 568 pages
...eneouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the oecasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts...impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...things, and felt the powers of the world to come. We give the following extracts from the address : " On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to the impending Civil War. All dreaded it ; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 pages
...satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts Avere anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. " On the occasion corresponding with this, four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously...insurgent agents were in the city, seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - Oratory - 1891 - 188 pages
...the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. FROM LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS. On the occasion corresponding to this, four years...civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. "On the occasion corresponding to this four...impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inangural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | George G. Evans - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 296 pages
...satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four...impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1893 - 566 pages
...satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this, four...impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
...satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. " On the occasion corresponding to this...impending civil war. All dreaded it, — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four...impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving... | |
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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. On... 
