American oratorsMayo Williamson Hazeltine P.F. Collier, 1903 |
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... mind ; I am under no obligation to do that . I may retain the opinion , but if I can do so great a good as to preserve my country and give it peace , and its institu- tions and its Union stability , I will forego any action upon my ...
... mind ; I am under no obligation to do that . I may retain the opinion , but if I can do so great a good as to preserve my country and give it peace , and its institu- tions and its Union stability , I will forego any action upon my ...
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... mind shall be diverted from this question to others of more pressing and practical importance . Throughout the whole progress of this agitation , which has scarcely known any intermission for more than twenty years , while it has been ...
... mind shall be diverted from this question to others of more pressing and practical importance . Throughout the whole progress of this agitation , which has scarcely known any intermission for more than twenty years , while it has been ...
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... mind captive . If the peo- ple were to put faith in no man's argument , they would examine every question for themselves , and decide accord- ing to their intrinsic merit . The errors of the small do but little harm ; those of the great ...
... mind captive . If the peo- ple were to put faith in no man's argument , they would examine every question for themselves , and decide accord- ing to their intrinsic merit . The errors of the small do but little harm ; those of the great ...
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... mind it is either the most ignorant and shallow mistake of his duties , or the most brazen and impudent usurpation of power . It is claimed for him by some as Commander - in- Chief of the army and navy . How absurd that a mere executive ...
... mind it is either the most ignorant and shallow mistake of his duties , or the most brazen and impudent usurpation of power . It is claimed for him by some as Commander - in- Chief of the army and navy . How absurd that a mere executive ...
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... minds with amazement . The theme belongs to the day . We celebrate the return of the day on which our separate national existence was declared the day when the momentous experiment was commenced , by which the world , and posterity ...
... minds with amazement . The theme belongs to the day . We celebrate the return of the day on which our separate national existence was declared the day when the momentous experiment was commenced , by which the world , and posterity ...
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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.