Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and RetrospectiveA.C. McClurg & Company, 1909 - 442 pages |
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... territorial area he represented . As a wit , he was without a rival in his section . The admiration of his constituents over the marvellous attainments of the new member , scarcely exceeded his own . Only the opportunity was wanting ...
... territorial area he represented . As a wit , he was without a rival in his section . The admiration of his constituents over the marvellous attainments of the new member , scarcely exceeded his own . Only the opportunity was wanting ...
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... TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF ILLINOIS BIRTH OF DARWIN AND GLADSTONE CAREER OF NAPOLEON WAR OF 1812- THE SLAVERY QUESTION SEIZURE AND SURRENDER OF MASON AND SLIDELL- EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES . - F --- EBRUARY 12 , 1909 , will long be ...
... TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF ILLINOIS BIRTH OF DARWIN AND GLADSTONE CAREER OF NAPOLEON WAR OF 1812- THE SLAVERY QUESTION SEIZURE AND SURRENDER OF MASON AND SLIDELL- EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES . - F --- EBRUARY 12 , 1909 , will long be ...
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... Territory of Illinois , with a white population less than one - twentieth of that of this good county to - day . The United States having barely escaped a war with France , — our ally in securing our independence , — was earnestly ...
... Territory of Illinois , with a white population less than one - twentieth of that of this good county to - day . The United States having barely escaped a war with France , — our ally in securing our independence , — was earnestly ...
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... Territory . The boundary line of " fifty - four - forty " was in many of the States the decisive party watchword in that masterful contest . Douglas , in full accord with his party upon this ques- tion , ably canvassed Illinois in ...
... Territory . The boundary line of " fifty - four - forty " was in many of the States the decisive party watchword in that masterful contest . Douglas , in full accord with his party upon this ques- tion , ably canvassed Illinois in ...
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... , diplomacy , peace , empire . From its inception , Douglas was an unfaltering advocate of the project of annexation , and as chairman of the Committee on Territories , bore prominent part in the STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 101.
... , diplomacy , peace , empire . From its inception , Douglas was an unfaltering advocate of the project of annexation , and as chairman of the Committee on Territories , bore prominent part in the STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 101.
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Page 124 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him: The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Page 251 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 126 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. 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...
Page 320 - Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 118 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 118 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 305 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Page 306 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 377 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 86 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.