Abraham Lincoln; the Tribute of a Century, 1809-1909: Commemorative of the Lincoln Centenary and Containing the Principal Speeches Made in Connection TherewithNathan William MacChesney A.C. McClurg & Company, 1910 - 555 pages |
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... issues containing information im- portant to the purpose of this work . The editor here expresses his sense of obligation to his wife for her help and suggestions , and to his friend and associate , Herbert E. Bradley . The editor will ...
... issues containing information im- portant to the purpose of this work . The editor here expresses his sense of obligation to his wife for her help and suggestions , and to his friend and associate , Herbert E. Bradley . The editor will ...
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... issues of history , to make us single - hearted in our love of America , and united in our purpose for her advancement . We are met here to - day to recall the character and achievements of a man who did not stand for strife , but for ...
... issues of history , to make us single - hearted in our love of America , and united in our purpose for her advancement . We are met here to - day to recall the character and achievements of a man who did not stand for strife , but for ...
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... issue was joined in the field of thought , and men began to reconstruct their conceptions of the universe and of their relation to nature , and even of their relation to God . There is , I believe , no more significant century in the ...
... issue was joined in the field of thought , and men began to reconstruct their conceptions of the universe and of their relation to nature , and even of their relation to God . There is , I believe , no more significant century in the ...
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... issue . But once raised , it had to be faced . Lincoln faced it . And in facing it and settling it , he estab- lished the fabric of democracy in the United States on con- stitutional foundations that cannot be moved . Time And the ...
... issue . But once raised , it had to be faced . Lincoln faced it . And in facing it and settling it , he estab- lished the fabric of democracy in the United States on con- stitutional foundations that cannot be moved . Time And the ...
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... issue , flashed a revealing light in the faces of the North . In that light the slave power showed its true visage , stripped , unmistakable , the relentless enemy not of the negro alone but of the nation as well . To save the Union ...
... issue , flashed a revealing light in the faces of the North . In that light the slave power showed its true visage , stripped , unmistakable , the relentless enemy not of the negro alone but of the nation as well . To save the Union ...
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Page 215 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 273 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 263 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said — "that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 196 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 428 - Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 274 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 162 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 430 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 73 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port" is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 476 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate — we cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.