A Sermon on the Assassination of President LincolnA.W. Scribners, 1865 |
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... slavery , and the assassination of the President is the grand consummate expression of the spirit of slavery . This is not the first time it has struck from behind . It is full of the instinct of its own meanness . It knows it is a vile ...
... slavery , and the assassination of the President is the grand consummate expression of the spirit of slavery . This is not the first time it has struck from behind . It is full of the instinct of its own meanness . It knows it is a vile ...
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... slave ; but the spirit which thinks nothing of whipping a man or degrading a woman , will only be restrained by policy or penalty or want of opportunity from going further . The moment you admit in any case the absolute right of one man ...
... slave ; but the spirit which thinks nothing of whipping a man or degrading a woman , will only be restrained by policy or penalty or want of opportunity from going further . The moment you admit in any case the absolute right of one man ...
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... slave marts with skins as white as yours . Assume that a slave woman is rightfully the toy and property of her master , and you lessen the respect for female virtue everywhere , and stop not short of that state of society which this is ...
... slave marts with skins as white as yours . Assume that a slave woman is rightfully the toy and property of her master , and you lessen the respect for female virtue everywhere , and stop not short of that state of society which this is ...
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... slavery , and sometimes on mere suspicion of their sentiments . It is the same spirit that struck down Charles Sumner in his place in the United States Senate for daring to hold the mirror up to slavery , and to call things by their ...
... slavery , and sometimes on mere suspicion of their sentiments . It is the same spirit that struck down Charles Sumner in his place in the United States Senate for daring to hold the mirror up to slavery , and to call things by their ...
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... slave- barbarism ? No , no ! Slavery has done this deed , and upon it I call down the curse of Heaven . I invoke it in the name of a down - trodden race ; I invoke it in the name of the hearts it has torn , the domestic ties it has ...
... slave- barbarism ? No , no ! Slavery has done this deed , and upon it I call down the curse of Heaven . I invoke it in the name of a down - trodden race ; I invoke it in the name of the hearts it has torn , the domestic ties it has ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln administration amid assas Assassination of Abraham banners beloved President BEQUEST OF EVERT bereaved bidding blighted blood blow circumstances clustering vines Confederacy Constitution danger dare dead death deed degradation disregard distinction of color duty Europe event expression faith foreign gather God's hand heart Heaven Henceforth horror hour human right inauguration intellectual character JOHN E justice land leaders leading traitors lenity lesson look maimed MARVIN ment monument murder mutilation nation nation's burden natural North Northern men open grave party passion peace pestilent political popular principle ques question rebellion Respectfully ruler sackcloth and ashes sense shalt be avenged sident slave mart South Southern Southern prin speaketh spirit of slavery stand stop story strength struck sympathy tears tell thee thine thing Thou shalt thy tomb tion to-day treason TROY trust VINCENT virtue wave West WINSLOW WOOL
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Seite 33 - It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.
Seite 33 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world for all future time.
Seite 26 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I can not succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him; and in the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I can not succeed, but with...
Seite 45 - THE DAY OF THE LORD. THE Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand : Its storms roll up the sky : The nations sleep starving on heaps of gold; All dreamers toss and sigh ; The night is darkest before the morn ; When the pain is sorest the child is born, And the Day of the Lord at hand.
Seite 26 - his trust in God, he ever derived support and consolation in the darkest hours. Implicitly relying upon Almighty wisdom and goodness, he looked danger in the face with a constant smile, and endured incessant labors and trials with a serenity which seemed more than human. While, however, his soul was full of piety, it was tolerant of error.
Seite 46 - ... wilt not follow her career with thy spirit gaze, and smile with heavenly joy, when thou shalt see peace within her walls and prosperity within her palaces. And so, till our work be done, and we follow thee into the silence, we bid thee farewell. Sleep ! -beloved ruler ! Rest ! great, tender, careworn heart ! Sleep sweetly in the bosom of the "West, while the gratitude of the down-trodden and the love of the nation gather like clustering vines round thy tomb, and thy monument points through the...
Seite 27 - But, more sublime than any or all of these, more holy and influential, more beautiful and strong and sustaining was his abiding confidence in God, and in the final triumph of truth and righteousness, through Him and for His sake. This was his noblest virtue, his grandest principle, the secret alike of his strength, his patience, and his success...
Seite 30 - But without the advantages of Washington's education or training, Mr. Lincoln was called from an humble station, at the opening of a mighty civil war, to form a government out of a party in which the habits and traditions of official life did not exist. Finding himself the object of Southern abuse so fierce and so foul, that in any man less passionless it would long ago have stirred up an implacable...
Seite 37 - and that the work of retribution belonged to other and doubtless fitter instruments. I will not positively assert that his policy toward traitors was so much too lenient that God replaced him by a man, who, we have good reason to think, will not err in this direction. Yet I say this may be and it looks like it.
Seite 43 - ... they have been secretly favoring, this deed has supplied the want. Henceforth, brothers, we go forth more unitedly to our work. Henceforth the lines are more sharply drawn. Henceforth we know but two classes — loyal men and traitors. Northern men with Southern principles, I tell you your skirts are not clear of the President's blood. You have fostered the spirit which struck the blow. You have apologized for it. You have fretted and been angry at those who would insist that slavery was at the...