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... Jefferson Davis ... 218 G. P. A. Healy , in the Corcoran Gallery , Railroad Station , Springfield .. 219 Washington ) .... 129 John Pope .... 221 Lewis Cass ..... 131 David Hunter .... 223 Oliver Wendell Holmes . 138 Raising the Flag ...
... Jefferson Davis ... 218 G. P. A. Healy , in the Corcoran Gallery , Railroad Station , Springfield .. 219 Washington ) .... 129 John Pope .... 221 Lewis Cass ..... 131 David Hunter .... 223 Oliver Wendell Holmes . 138 Raising the Flag ...
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... Jefferson Davis , of Mississippi , all of whom were to appear in the great drama in which Abraham Lincoln was to take the leading part . Mr. Lincoln was meeting the foremost men of the nation as their equal in making laws for the ...
... Jefferson Davis , of Mississippi , all of whom were to appear in the great drama in which Abraham Lincoln was to take the leading part . Mr. Lincoln was meeting the foremost men of the nation as their equal in making laws for the ...
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... Jefferson Davis , of Mississippi , were ringing the bell at the White House . President Pierce did not attend to public business on Sunday ; he did [ From a photograph taken by the author in 1890. ] not wish to have people call upon him ...
... Jefferson Davis , of Mississippi , were ringing the bell at the White House . President Pierce did not attend to public business on Sunday ; he did [ From a photograph taken by the author in 1890. ] not wish to have people call upon him ...
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... Jefferson Davis called upon President Pierce and unfolded the plan for the introduction of slavery into Kansas and the other Ter- ritories of the Union ; but it was no longer a united party . President Buchanan had done what he could to ...
... Jefferson Davis called upon President Pierce and unfolded the plan for the introduction of slavery into Kansas and the other Ter- ritories of the Union ; but it was no longer a united party . President Buchanan had done what he could to ...
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... Jefferson Davis , of Mississippi ; Robert Toombs , of Georgia ; BENJAMIN F. BUTLER . John M. Mason , of Virginia ; and Judah P. Benjamin , of Louisiana , were crowding Douglas to the wall . Like a stag at bay he confronted them ...
... Jefferson Davis , of Mississippi ; Robert Toombs , of Georgia ; BENJAMIN F. BUTLER . John M. Mason , of Virginia ; and Judah P. Benjamin , of Louisiana , were crowding Douglas to the wall . Like a stag at bay he confronted them ...
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Página 238 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Página 354 - 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.
Página 354 - 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.
Página 110 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Página 487 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as...
Página 402 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. 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. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Página 487 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Página 217 - My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Página 347 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Página 336 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.