Biography of James G. Blaine

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H. Bill Publishing Company, 1895 - 722 páginas
 

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Página 517 - ... a way of permanently averting the horrors of cruel and bloody combat between countries, oftenest of one blood and speech, or the even worse calamity of internal commotion and civil strife; that it shall regard the burdensome and far-reaching consequences of such struggles, the legacies of exhausted finances, of oppressive debt, of onerous taxation, of ruined cities, of paralyzed industries, of devastated fields, of ruthless conscription, of the slaughter of men, of the grief of the widow and...
Página 394 - The Republicans of the United States demand as their leader in the great contest of 1876 a man of intelligence, a man of integrity, a man of wellknown and approved political opinions. They demand a statesman ; they demand a reformer after as well as before the election. They demand a politician in the highest, broadest and best sense — a man of superb moral courage.
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Página 357 - There is the very original package. And with some sense of humiliation, with a mortification that I do not pretend to conceal, with a sense of outrage which I think any man in my position would feel, I invite the confidence of fortyfour million of my countrymen while I read those letters from this desk.
Página 396 - Gentlemen of the convention, in the name of the great Republic, the only Republic that ever existed upon this earth ; in the name of all her defenders and of all her supporters; in the name of all her soldiers living; in the name of all her soldiers dead upon the field of battle...
Página 489 - They are to be treated with respect, but they are the worst possible political advisers — upstarts, conceited, foolish, vain, without knowledge of measures, ignorant of men, shouting a shibboleth which represents nothing of practical reform that you are not a thousand times pledged to.
Página 396 - ... man who has preserved in Congress what our soldiers won upon the field; a year in which...

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