 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 732 pages
...quoted opening paragraph of Mr. Lincoln's speech before the Republican state convention of Illinois: We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with this avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...If we could first know where we are and whither we are drifting, we could better know what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since...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... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy was initiated,...putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has continually augmented. In my opinion... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 560 pages
...remarks on this occasion, in the following letter (a translation by the hand of the recipient): 1" We are now far into the fifth year since a policy...putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, hut has constantly augmented. In my opinion,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 526 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 528 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 272 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now fur into the fifth year tince a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of pulling (m cud to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
..."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...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,... | |
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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.... 
