The Lives and Deeds of Our Self-made MenWorthington, Dustin, 1872 - 602 pages |
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... hope in offering them as examples to the young men of America . In respect to one of the names on the list , the editor's near relation- ship , while it gives her most authentic access to all sources of just information , may be held to ...
... hope in offering them as examples to the young men of America . In respect to one of the names on the list , the editor's near relation- ship , while it gives her most authentic access to all sources of just information , may be held to ...
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... hope ; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him , sustain him , and give him march- es , triumphal entries , and receptions beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor . On the ...
... hope ; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him , sustain him , and give him march- es , triumphal entries , and receptions beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor . On the ...
Page 46
... hope those with whom I am surrounded have principle enough to nerve themselves for the task and leave nothing undone that can be fairly done , to bring about the right result . " Two years before , Mr. Lincoln had used even stron- ger ...
... hope those with whom I am surrounded have principle enough to nerve themselves for the task and leave nothing undone that can be fairly done , to bring about the right result . " Two years before , Mr. Lincoln had used even stron- ger ...
Page 61
... hope it will come soon and come to stay ; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time . It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet , and that they who ...
... hope it will come soon and come to stay ; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time . It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet , and that they who ...
Page 68
... hope in the world ? In our present dif- ferences , is either party without faith of being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of nations , with his eternal truth and justice , be on your side of the North , or on yours of the South ...
... hope in the world ? In our present dif- ferences , is either party without faith of being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of nations , with his eternal truth and justice , be on your side of the North , or on yours of the South ...
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Page 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 78 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 81 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Page 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 69 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.