Anecdotes of Public Men, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1873 |
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... politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player , you can at least do justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and generously . Instead of One Hundred ...
... politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player , you can at least do justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and generously . Instead of One Hundred ...
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... political friends , he delighted to welcome his political adversa- ries , and to make them at home . Let me give one specimen of his liberality . It was my misfortune to differ from the South- ern leaders at an early day , and they ...
... political friends , he delighted to welcome his political adversa- ries , and to make them at home . Let me give one specimen of his liberality . It was my misfortune to differ from the South- ern leaders at an early day , and they ...
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... politics , on art , on finance , with astonishing rapidity and ease . Unlike his aggressive successor , General Cushing is anxious to end his career at peace with all the world . It is said that he is now receiving more money for legal ...
... politics , on art , on finance , with astonishing rapidity and ease . Unlike his aggressive successor , General Cushing is anxious to end his career at peace with all the world . It is said that he is now receiving more money for legal ...
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... politics I have preferred to let events take their course , so far as I am concerned , maintaining the position I have held for the last two years of uncompromising hostility to the proscriptive and shameless policy of the present ...
... politics I have preferred to let events take their course , so far as I am concerned , maintaining the position I have held for the last two years of uncompromising hostility to the proscriptive and shameless policy of the present ...
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... political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he ...
... political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he ...
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Seite 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Seite 171 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Seite 12 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Seite 244 - I assure you and your mayor that I had hoped on this occasion, and upon all occasions during my life, that I shall do nothing inconsistent with the teachings of these holy and most sacred walls. I have never asked anything that does not breathe from those walls.
Seite 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 170 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Seite 245 - 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.
Seite 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Seite 91 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
Seite 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...