Our Martyred President as a Man ...: Memorial Life of William McKinley ... Together with a Full History of Anarchy and Its Infamous DeedsMemorial Publishing Company, 1901 - 480 pages |
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... doors . Prepared to execute every obligation imposed upon me by the Constitution and the law , I await your action . " Congress debated a week over the recommendations con- tained in the President's message , and on April 18 , both ...
... doors . Prepared to execute every obligation imposed upon me by the Constitution and the law , I await your action . " Congress debated a week over the recommendations con- tained in the President's message , and on April 18 , both ...
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... door across whose mysterious threshold he has passed into eternity and into history , we think of him not as a partisan but as a man , and gladly give the meed of praise which is his due . " There is no politics in the chamber wherein ...
... door across whose mysterious threshold he has passed into eternity and into history , we think of him not as a partisan but as a man , and gladly give the meed of praise which is his due . " There is no politics in the chamber wherein ...
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... DOOR . For some days during May Mrs. McKinley lingered at death's door ; but at last there was a change for the better , and , after she had gained sufficient strength to stand the journey East , she rapidly recovered her former measure ...
... DOOR . For some days during May Mrs. McKinley lingered at death's door ; but at last there was a change for the better , and , after she had gained sufficient strength to stand the journey East , she rapidly recovered her former measure ...
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... door . " Second . We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection and indemnity for life and property which no gov- ernment there can or will afford , and to that end to terminate the conditions that deprive them of ...
... door . " Second . We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection and indemnity for life and property which no gov- ernment there can or will afford , and to that end to terminate the conditions that deprive them of ...
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... door by warships of a foreign nation ; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless altogether to prevent , and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising - all these and others . that I need not mention , with ...
... door by warships of a foreign nation ; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless altogether to prevent , and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising - all these and others . that I need not mention , with ...
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Page 303 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Page 148 - Union and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 296 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone ; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, — Nearer to Thee...
Page 155 - ... of a foreign nation; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless to prevent altogether, and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising — all these and others that I need not mention, with the resulting strained relations, are a constant menace to our peace and compel us to keep on a semi-war footing with a nation with which we are at peace.
Page 100 - The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame : Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high ! Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came...
Page 398 - For him there is no longer any future, His life is bright — bright without spot it was And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above desire and fear ; No more submitted to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets.
Page 156 - Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 156 - In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquility and the security of its citizens, as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces...
Page 155 - The present condition of affairs in Cuba is a constant menace to our peace and entails upon this Government an enormous expense. With such a conflict waged for years in an island so near us, and with which our people have such trade and business relations; when the lives and liberty of our citizens are in constant danger and their property destroyed and themselves ruined...
Page 296 - Then, with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise, Out of my stony griefs Beth-El I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!