Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States: Delivered Before the Citizens of Bangor on the Day of the National Fast, June 1st, 1865S.S. Smith, 1865 - 30 pages |
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... genius , is a difficult one to trace . We are used to a certain extravagance in those whom we call great . We are used to seeing a selfish ambition kindle their faculties to intense and glowing heat . A mind that takes things as they ...
... genius , is a difficult one to trace . We are used to a certain extravagance in those whom we call great . We are used to seeing a selfish ambition kindle their faculties to intense and glowing heat . A mind that takes things as they ...
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... genius for control . His theory of government was , that the ruler is the peo- ple's servant , bound , in all right ... genius for his work , and went about it so naturally , that it looked so easy , and it seemed as if any average ...
... genius for control . His theory of government was , that the ruler is the peo- ple's servant , bound , in all right ... genius for his work , and went about it so naturally , that it looked so easy , and it seemed as if any average ...
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... Genius always look easy till we try to do them . For this genius I think he has not had sufficient credit . We read his messa- ges , as the telegraph brought them to us , and call them ungrammatical . We read some of his popular speech ...
... Genius always look easy till we try to do them . For this genius I think he has not had sufficient credit . We read his messa- ges , as the telegraph brought them to us , and call them ungrammatical . We read some of his popular speech ...
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Page 19 - And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have strove, to hinder it.
Page 5 - It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections.
Page 5 - Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
Page 15 - All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
Page 17 - No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
Page 17 - That is the issue that will continue in this country, when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the...
Page 17 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world.
Page 15 - Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices...
Page 16 - ... charming hope; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him, sustain him, and give him marches, triumphal entries, and receptions beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.