Eirene: Or, A Woman's RightG. P. Putnam & sons, 1871 - 3 pages |
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Page 30 - Liberty first and Union afterwards," but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Page 30 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 29 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss...
Page 30 - ... once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured; bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, What is...
Page 30 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind!
Page 73 - THERE seems a voice in every gale, A tongue In every flower, Which tells, O Lord, the wondrous tale Of thy almighty power...
Page 210 - Daylight began to stream in at the windows. " Let us go to bed," said Ducos : " life is so trifling a thing that it is not worth the hour of sleep we lose in regretting it." " Let us watch," said Lasource to Sillery and Fauchet ; " eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Page 29 - Union at so low a price, that they will not oven make one effort to bind the States together with the cords of affection ? And has it come to this ? Is this the spirit in which this Government is to be administered ? If so, let me tell gentlemen the seeds of dissolution are already sown, and our children will reap the bitter fruit.
Page 29 - Do gentlemen value so lightly the peace and harmony of the country, that they will not yield a measure of this description to the affectionate entreaties and earnest remonstrances of their friends ? Do gentlemen estimate the value of the Union at so low a price, that they will not even make one effort to bind the States together with the cords of affection ? And has it come to this ? Is this the spirit in which this Government is to be administered...
Page 72 - Rock of Ages, cleft for me," and others, whose sweetness, purity, and divine fervor lift them so far above the rampant rhymes sometimes called camp-meeting hymns. After breakfast, the brethren and sisters gathered in the tent, some sitting on benches, some in the clean straw which covered the ground, some on piles of bedding on which many had slept the night before. Brother Viner offered Tilda and Eirene a seat in a corner, where it was impossible that a crowd should gather around them, as they...