Memorial Addresses Delivered Before the Two Houses of Congress on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinleyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 246 pages |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN America Army and Navy Associate Justices blessing blood Cabinet Chaplain character Chief Justice command confidence Constitution death diplomatic corps duty elected emancipation England event faith fame father February 27 feeling field forever freedom friends gallery GARFIELD George Bancroft heart Henry N honor hour House of Representatives House will occupy Houses of Congress human hundred invited guests JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD Jefferson joint committee Justice and Associate labor land late President liberty live Lord main aisle MEMORIAL ADDRESS military millions mind moral Nation nature never occupy seats officers Ohio Orator Palmerston parliamentary party patriotism peace political prayer President and ex-President President pro tempore rebellion Republic Republican slave slavery solemn Speaker speech Supreme Court Thaddeus Stevens thank Thee Thou thought thousand Tickets thereto tion to-day twelve o'clock Union United victory Virginia WILLIAM MCKINLEY words
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Page 227 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
Page 30 - I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country...
Page 30 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid whi.ch sustained him, and on the same Almighty . Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but...
Page 107 - It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin raised among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Page 102 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the bloodshot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
Page 110 - Garfield's early opportunities for securing an education were extremely limited, and yet were sufficient to develop in him an intense desire to learn. He could read at three years of age, and each winter he had the advantage of the district school. He read all the books to be found within the circle of his acquaintance; some of them he got by heart. While yet in childhood he was a constant student of the Bible, and became familiar with its literature. The dignity and earnestness of his speech in...
Page 107 - Its remains still exist. I make to it an annual visit. I carry my children to it, to teach them the hardships endured by the generations which have gone before them. I love to dwell on the tender recollections, the kindred ties, the early affections, and the touching narratives and incidents, which mingle with all I know of this primitive family abode.
Page 222 - Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention.
Page 32 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 223 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem.