Ready MoneyPersonal help publishing Company, 1905 - 305 pages |
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... slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God . I care not what course others may take , but as for me , give me liberty or give me death . " It was simply the culmination of his invincible deter- mination . A deep - seated , never - dying enthu ...
... slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God . I care not what course others may take , but as for me , give me liberty or give me death . " It was simply the culmination of his invincible deter- mination . A deep - seated , never - dying enthu ...
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... slaves to a habit loathsome to humanity and a barrier to the highest development of the race , all for a lack of moral courage to refuse tobacco in any form , and because of the foolish and unfortunate belief that the stuff would make ...
... slaves to a habit loathsome to humanity and a barrier to the highest development of the race , all for a lack of moral courage to refuse tobacco in any form , and because of the foolish and unfortunate belief that the stuff would make ...
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... slavery , one hundred thousand of them imported into the island within four years , unable to speak a dialect ... slaves . This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave trade in the humblest village of his dominions . You think ...
... slavery , one hundred thousand of them imported into the island within four years , unable to speak a dialect ... slaves . This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave trade in the humblest village of his dominions . You think ...
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... slavery , who , with treason , with murder , with cruelty infernal , hovered round that majestic man to destroy his life . He was himself the life - long sting with which Slavery struck at Liberty , and he carried the poison that ...
... slavery , who , with treason , with murder , with cruelty infernal , hovered round that majestic man to destroy his life . He was himself the life - long sting with which Slavery struck at Liberty , and he carried the poison that ...
Page 219
... slavery to - day more than ever before . How naturally , how easily , the Government passed into the hands of the new President , and I avow my belief that he will be found a man true to every instinct of liberty , true to the whole ...
... slavery to - day more than ever before . How naturally , how easily , the Government passed into the hands of the new President , and I avow my belief that he will be found a man true to every instinct of liberty , true to the whole ...
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Page 283 - Mr. President, I have thus stated the reasons of my dissent to the doctrines which have been advanced and maintained. I am conscious of having detained you and the Senate much too long. I was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation, such as is suited to the discussion of so grave and important a subject.
Page 241 - ... other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British Ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Page 255 - The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer; the attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis; the merchant at the cross-roads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York...
Page 311 - The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement—a social system, compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core— a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace— and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this complex age.
Page 306 - It is a rare privilege, sir, to have had part, however humble, in this work. Never was nobler duty confided to human hands than the uplifting and upbuilding of the prostrate and bleeding South — misguided, perhaps, but beautiful in her suffering, and honest, brave, and generous always. In the record of her social, industrial, and political illustration we await with confidence the verdict of the world.
Page 312 - In my native town of Athens is a monument that crowns its central hill — a plain, white shaft. Deep cut into its shining side is a name dear to me above the names of men, that of a brave and simple man who died in brave and simple faith. Not for...
Page 35 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 302 - Think of him as ragged, halfstarved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds; having fought to exhaustion, he surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot the old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey.
Page 230 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the proposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed...
Page 222 - ... and some are talking with wives, and endeavoring with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms — standing in the sunlight sobbing; at the turn of the road a hand waves; she answers by holding high in her loving hands the child. He is gone, and forever.