Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890: Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the WarRichmond, Croscup & Company, 1893 - 434 pages |
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... strong . " " I have said nothing about our strength , Mr. Van Buren ! " replied Mr. Tilden . " True ; you have only implied it , " answered our host . " You must be very strong if you are already picking and choosing from the recruits ...
... strong . " " I have said nothing about our strength , Mr. Van Buren ! " replied Mr. Tilden . " True ; you have only implied it , " answered our host . " You must be very strong if you are already picking and choosing from the recruits ...
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... knowing better than to steal the boots of a great man like Senator Dudley Chase . " Another original and strong character in the early judicial history of Vermont was Theophilus Har- rington . He 20 PERSONAL REMINISCENCES .
... knowing better than to steal the boots of a great man like Senator Dudley Chase . " Another original and strong character in the early judicial history of Vermont was Theophilus Har- rington . He 20 PERSONAL REMINISCENCES .
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... strong men , those early settlers , almost without exception , men whose education was limited to reading , writing , and the four simple rules of arithmetic . The sharp struggle of their fathers for existence in a new country , the ...
... strong men , those early settlers , almost without exception , men whose education was limited to reading , writing , and the four simple rules of arithmetic . The sharp struggle of their fathers for existence in a new country , the ...
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... strong evidence ; it nothing to do with him . much value in what I am telling you , but I think its value will grow upon you . " If your first impression is not change it except upon is better as a rule to have There may not seem to be ...
... strong evidence ; it nothing to do with him . much value in what I am telling you , but I think its value will grow upon you . " If your first impression is not change it except upon is better as a rule to have There may not seem to be ...
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... strong arm of the law ; the feet of lignum vitæ , so that the people can say that their judges have solid understandings . " The committee also recommend that the Rutland sculptor be employed to make 150 plaster casts of that number of ...
... strong arm of the law ; the feet of lignum vitæ , so that the people can say that their judges have solid understandings . " The committee also recommend that the Rutland sculptor be employed to make 150 plaster casts of that number of ...
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Page 414 - Do not misunderstand me because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties that have thus far prevented my action in some such way as you desire. I have not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves, but hold the matter under advisement. And I can assure you that the subject is on my mind by day and night, more than any other. Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do.
Page 414 - The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
Page 77 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first : and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Page 389 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.
Page 415 - 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. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 413 - ... machinery of the States and the Union, has produced in a given time, and also what, if firmly maintained, it promises for the future. There are already among us those who, if the Union be preserved, will live to see it contain two hundred and fifty millions. The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day — it is for a vast future also.
Page 413 - If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.
Page 399 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery—subordination to the superior race —is his natural and normal condition.
Page 418 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 416 - ... render the homage due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful things he has done in the nation's behalf, and invoke the influence of his Holy Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long sustained a needless and cruel rebellion, to change the hearts of the insurgents, to guide the counsels of the government with wisdom adequate to so great a national emergency...