History Plays for the Grammar GradesPress of Schwabacher-Frey Stationery Company, 1922 - 38 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln American Army auction BLOUNT BRADFORD Buckner BUREN Calhoun Calhoun's speech California California Republic Captain Sutter captured Clark Columbus Compromise Court Daniel Webster Declaration of Independence elected to Congress Elizabeth Cady Stanton End of Act Enter exploring Ezekiel FATHER GIBAULT fight England Franklin Fremont Gentlemen George Washington go to sea Grant HANCOCK HANKS Henry Clay House of Burgesses Independence as written Indian INTRODUCTION Jefferson of Virginia kill King land leaves the Union lives looking Luis Majesty MEMBER OF CONGRESS Mexican Miles Standish North nullification Orleans Patrick Henry Pilgrims Pocahontas President Jackson QUEEN Raleigh receive a plantation sailed sailors Salute secession Seward ships Sir Francis Drake slavery slaves soldiers South Carolina Spain Spanish speak SPEAKER SQUANTO Stanton Stars and Stripes story surrender talking tariff tell thirteen colonies Thomas Jefferson thou United voyage West William Penn women woodchuck
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us.
Seite 30 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union : on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
Seite 18 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 16 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Seite 36 - This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Seite 36 - Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
Seite 17 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Seite 35 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Seite 32 - PRESIDENT, — I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and a member of the Senate of the United States.
Seite 32 - ... commencement. I have exerted myself, during the whole period, to arrest it, with the intention of saving the Union, if it could be done; and if it could not, to save the section where it has pleased Providence to cast my lot, and which I sincerely believe has justice and the Constitution on its side. Having faithfully done my duty to the best of my ability, both to the Union and my section, throughout this agitation, I shall have the consolation, let what will come, that I am free from all responsibility.