Life of William McKinley, Our Martyred President: With Short Biographies of Lincoln and Garfield, and a Comprehensive Life of President Roosevelt, Containing the Masterpieces of McKinley's Eloquence, and a History of Anarchy, Its Purposes and Results |
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THE PRESIDENT ' S OWN STORY OF THE SPANISH War : Spain Given Time to
Settle Trouble - Destruction of the Maine - Efforts to Avert War Prove Vain -
Congress Takes Decisive Action - Formal Declaration of War - Recruiting Army
and ...
THE PRESIDENT ' S OWN STORY OF THE SPANISH War : Spain Given Time to
Settle Trouble - Destruction of the Maine - Efforts to Avert War Prove Vain -
Congress Takes Decisive Action - Formal Declaration of War - Recruiting Army
and ...
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His face was still bleeding from the blows given him by the negro , Parker , who
had cried , as he was torn away from him , " Oh , only for ten seconds more ! "
Once inside the little room , the door was closed with a bang , but the mob , with
its ...
His face was still bleeding from the blows given him by the negro , Parker , who
had cried , as he was torn away from him , " Oh , only for ten seconds more ! "
Once inside the little room , the door was closed with a bang , but the mob , with
its ...
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About eight o ' clock at night oxygen was given him again , and under its
influence he slightly revived . He told Dr . Rixey that he realized that he was
about to die , and asked for Mrs . McKinley . She came and knelt down by his
bedside , and ...
About eight o ' clock at night oxygen was given him again , and under its
influence he slightly revived . He told Dr . Rixey that he realized that he was
about to die , and asked for Mrs . McKinley . She came and knelt down by his
bedside , and ...
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We ourselves depart with all the accumulations of tendency and habit and quality
which the years have given to us . We ask , therefore , even at the grave of the
illustrious , not altogether what great achievement they had performed and how ...
We ourselves depart with all the accumulations of tendency and habit and quality
which the years have given to us . We ask , therefore , even at the grave of the
illustrious , not altogether what great achievement they had performed and how ...
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This great newspaper has given an account of the assassination in an article of
forty thousand words . It says : “ The king has commanded that the court shall
wear mourning for one week for the late President of the United States . ' '
Referring ...
This great newspaper has given an account of the assassination in an article of
forty thousand words . It says : “ The king has commanded that the court shall
wear mourning for one week for the late President of the United States . ' '
Referring ...
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Page 257 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 297 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 299 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 157 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 299 - Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own Revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws ; but to break up both, and make new ones.
Page 301 - Now you are about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.
Page 287 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not...
Page 286 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 157 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 180 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.