Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York: Including: Addresses on Important Public Topics: Speeches in the State and United States Senate, and in Support of the Government During the Rebellion; Correspondence, Private and Political (collected and Arranged by Mrs. Dickinson), Poems (collected and Arranged by Mrs. Mygatt), Etc, Volume 1G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1867 |
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... look upon the features of the great statesman entered from the south , passed around the coffin , and was permitted to leave from the east entrance . The features of the deceased presented the appearance of one in natu- ral slumber ...
... look upon the features of the great statesman entered from the south , passed around the coffin , and was permitted to leave from the east entrance . The features of the deceased presented the appearance of one in natu- ral slumber ...
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... look upon the sun in the heavens , he might behold our flag , without a single star obscured or a single stripe erased or polluted , he might not look upon States dissevered and belligerent , or upon a land drenched with frater- nal ...
... look upon the sun in the heavens , he might behold our flag , without a single star obscured or a single stripe erased or polluted , he might not look upon States dissevered and belligerent , or upon a land drenched with frater- nal ...
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... look upon them like an inhabitant of this world . It is my highest ambition to trace effects from their true causes - to follow them to their source - to learn what would be the operation of a repeal upon the great mass of the people ...
... look upon them like an inhabitant of this world . It is my highest ambition to trace effects from their true causes - to follow them to their source - to learn what would be the operation of a repeal upon the great mass of the people ...
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... Look for a moment through our entire code of laws , and you will find there a " rule of action , enforcing what is right , and prohibiting what is wrong , " in- tended to curb the depraved and licentious passions of men , which may ...
... Look for a moment through our entire code of laws , and you will find there a " rule of action , enforcing what is right , and prohibiting what is wrong , " in- tended to curb the depraved and licentious passions of men , which may ...
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... looks abroad into the garden of creation , and sees the flowers which his infidelity has blighted , when he reflects upon the blasted expectation and disappointed hope , the bitter tears of unavailing repentance , although he can ...
... looks abroad into the garden of creation , and sees the flowers which his infidelity has blighted , when he reflects upon the blasted expectation and disappointed hope , the bitter tears of unavailing repentance , although he can ...
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Page 332 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 620 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 653 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Page 566 - 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 559 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Page 725 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies ; and what's his reason ? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Page 378 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Page 113 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war...
Page 292 - Territory shall be subject to pay a part of the Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 242 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...