American oratorsMayo Williamson Hazeltine P.F. Collier, 1903 |
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... hope , therefore , gentlemen will be disposed to bring the sincerest spirit of conciliation , the sincerest spirit and desire to adjust all these difficulties , and to think nothing of any little concessions of opinions that they may ...
... hope , therefore , gentlemen will be disposed to bring the sincerest spirit of conciliation , the sincerest spirit and desire to adjust all these difficulties , and to think nothing of any little concessions of opinions that they may ...
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... hope of that liberty which we have heretofore enjoyed ; carrying with it , in place of the peace we have enjoyed , nothing but revolution and havoc and anarchy . Shall it be said that we have allowed all these evils to come upon our ...
... hope of that liberty which we have heretofore enjoyed ; carrying with it , in place of the peace we have enjoyed , nothing but revolution and havoc and anarchy . Shall it be said that we have allowed all these evils to come upon our ...
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... hope that the long agitation on this subject is ap- proaching its end , and that the geographical parties to which it has given birth , so much dreaded by the Father of his Country , will speedily become extinct ? Most happy will it be ...
... hope that the long agitation on this subject is ap- proaching its end , and that the geographical parties to which it has given birth , so much dreaded by the Father of his Country , will speedily become extinct ? Most happy will it be ...
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... hope- ful his struggles , the tighter the master rivets his chains . Moses and Aaron urged the emancipation of the enslaved Jews . Their master hardened his heart . Those fanatical abolitionists , guided by Heaven , agitated anew ...
... hope- ful his struggles , the tighter the master rivets his chains . Moses and Aaron urged the emancipation of the enslaved Jews . Their master hardened his heart . Those fanatical abolitionists , guided by Heaven , agitated anew ...
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... hope in its bud ; as if to counterbalance at once the operation of these springs of improvement ; as if to secure the permanence of the arbi trary institutions which existed in every part of the Conti- nent , at the moment when it was ...
... hope in its bud ; as if to counterbalance at once the operation of these springs of improvement ; as if to secure the permanence of the arbi trary institutions which existed in every part of the Conti- nent , at the moment when it was ...
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Page 145 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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 136 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion — no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 144 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 143 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 144 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 16 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 141 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 141 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 132 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 127 - ... bring such piece in ; in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.