 | Russell H. Conwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 352 pages
...on the basis of impartial justice. " They mean that the State of Ohio in this great progress — ' whose leading object is to elevate the condition of...to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life ' — shall tread no step backward.... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...decisive one ... at least four hundred thousand men and four hundred million dollars/* It stated, " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men. ...... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...decisive one ... at least four hundred thousand men and four hundred million dollars.'* It stated, " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men. . .... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...that would give the disunionists disunion without a struggle of their own." The contest, he said, " is a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is...from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to offer all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 676 pages
...the noble purposes of the United States Government," whose " leading object " he represented to be : "to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial...from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit of all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." Contrast... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...essentially a People's contest. On the ,' ide of tlie Union it is a struggle for maintai ing in the woild that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to '¡ft artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people? 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 564 pages
...States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people ? 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...states." Why? "Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people? 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... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...its death blow. In his first message to Congress he states this principle clearly and concisely: " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...whose leading object is to elevate the condition of man ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all... | |
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This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men... 
