| William James Potter - 1865 - 78 pages
...sentences that strike at its root, and that must one day strike the fetters from all men's limbs. " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...for maintaining in the world that form and substance 54 of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...the rights of men and the authority of tho people 1 " This is essentially a people's contest. On tho side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining...that form and substance of government whose leading objei-i is to elevate the condition of mea— to lift artificial weights from all shoulders — to... | |
| Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...? This is essentially a People's contest. On the tide of the Uniun it is a struggle for maintai ing in the world that form and substance of government...leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to Hit artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people? land and naval forces are underbid orders uibeir eomniander-in-chtaf. But his power maintai ing in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the... | |
| John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...in his recent message to the Congress of the United States. In that message the President said : " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all ; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...selected a President, a Cabinet, a Congress, abundantly competent to administer the government itself. * * This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...government, whose leading object is to elevate the condition ofmen, — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, — to afford all an unfettered start, and... | |
| United States - 1863 - 302 pages
...Why ? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and tlie authoriiy of the people ? " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the wortd that form and substance of government, whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men... | |
| Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - 1927 - 244 pages
...crisis, in his message to the Special Session of Congress on July 4, 1861, when he said : "On the part of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from the shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all a fair chance in the... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 848 pages
...his immortal messages to congress, said among other things, that "The leading object [of government] is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial...from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." Not much... | |
| James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 278 pages
...years ago. The people represented in this convention mean that the State of Ohio in the great progress, ''whose leading object is to elevate the condition...shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, and to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life," shall tread no more steps... | |
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