Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences

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Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 - 640 pages

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Page 95 - This for sin could not atone, Thou must save, and thou alone; In my hand no price I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling.
Page 488 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 112 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease, And through the storm, and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace.
Page 98 - And while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return.
Page 94 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 93 - THE voice of free grace cries, Escape to the mountain, For Adam's lost race Christ hath opened a fountain ; For sin and uncleanness, and every transgression, His blood flows most freely in streams of salvation.
Page 157 - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
Page 422 - Ohio ; on the South by the Ohio River, and on the west by the State of Illinois.
Page 469 - All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck, which a few hours before I had killed.
Page 77 - The number of representatives shall, at the several periods of making such enumeration, be fixed by the legislature, and apportioned among the several counties...

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