| Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 pages
...waters again goes unvexed to the sea." This line is worthy of Shakespeare. Another: " Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." He draws a comparison between the white men against us and the black men for us: "And then there will... | |
| William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...aspect of affairs : — '"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...from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And there will be some black men ivho can... | |
| Robert Green Ingersoll - 1895 - 78 pages
...waters again goes unvexed to the sea." This line is worthy of Shakespeare. Another : "Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." He draws a comparison between the white men against us and the black men for us : ' 'And then there... | |
| Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - 1896 - 200 pages
...debate in Illinois. He loved peace: but as a "just and lasting peace." "I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping for all future time." But his integrity never blenched. In the teeth of the counsels of timid friends... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 312 pages
...future — thanks to all. Peace does not appear so far distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay: and so come as to be worth the keeping...from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then there will be some black men who... | |
| Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...future — thanks to all. Peace does not appear so far distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay : and so come as to be worth the keeping...from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then there will be some black men who... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...future — thanks to all. Peace does not appear so far distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay : and so come as to be worth the keeping...from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then there will be some black men who... | |
| International Correspondence Schools - Bookkeeping - 1899 - 558 pages
...future — thanks to all. 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...future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...future — thanks to all. 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. [The next sentence and part of the second are cited on page 333.] . . . Still, let us not be over-sanguine... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...Shaw Monument Book, p. 29. 2 The great consummation was to prove " That among free men there can he no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost." — Lincoln, Complete Works, vol. ii. p.... | |
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