A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and OrationsHudson-Kimberly publishing Company, 1902 - 536 pages |
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... thousands . And such a people have never be- fore or since built up an American commonwealth . It has been fashionable among giddy and unthinking people to make jokes about Kansas , —jokes ranging in merit from zero to the bot- tomless ...
... thousands . And such a people have never be- fore or since built up an American commonwealth . It has been fashionable among giddy and unthinking people to make jokes about Kansas , —jokes ranging in merit from zero to the bot- tomless ...
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... thousand memories crowd upon me . From the sordid environment of this great commercial city , I waft him a sad farewell , and beg that I too may be counted with those who have loved Kansas and believed in her to the uttermost . Chicago ...
... thousand memories crowd upon me . From the sordid environment of this great commercial city , I waft him a sad farewell , and beg that I too may be counted with those who have loved Kansas and believed in her to the uttermost . Chicago ...
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... thousand hearts are stirred , What life - drops from the minstrel wrung Have gushed with every word . " We John James Ingalls was not a Church - man , and not a creed - man . Must the world offer excuse for that ? Must the Church and ...
... thousand hearts are stirred , What life - drops from the minstrel wrung Have gushed with every word . " We John James Ingalls was not a Church - man , and not a creed - man . Must the world offer excuse for that ? Must the Church and ...
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... thousand . " Beyond the Mississippi " was almost equally successful . There are probably more copies of it in Kansas than of any other book except the Bible , and it is recognized as the most faithful delineation of Western life and ...
... thousand . " Beyond the Mississippi " was almost equally successful . There are probably more copies of it in Kansas than of any other book except the Bible , and it is recognized as the most faithful delineation of Western life and ...
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... thousand dollars . The subjugation of Kansas by the slave power now appeared to be accomplished . The Free State leaders were in prison ; the principal towns of the Territory were in the hands of the enemy . This was the result of the ...
... thousand dollars . The subjugation of Kansas by the slave power now appeared to be accomplished . The Free State leaders were in prison ; the principal towns of the Territory were in the hands of the enemy . This was the result of the ...
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Page 310 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 262 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 97 - Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I -walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 476 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 214 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 484 - To the west, to the west, to the land of the free Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea; Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil.
Page 25 - Then from the dawn it seem'd there came, but faint As from beyond the limit of the world, Like the last echo born of a great cry, Sounds, as if some fair city were one voice Around a king returning from his wars.
Page 219 - Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for
Page 496 - The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign.
Page 230 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!