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... grief that the American people and all friends of liberty feel at the sight of Abraham Lincoln's grave . That great republican , torn from his country , family , and friends at a time when his sacred patriotism had gained its end , has ...
... grief that the American people and all friends of liberty feel at the sight of Abraham Lincoln's grave . That great republican , torn from his country , family , and friends at a time when his sacred patriotism had gained its end , has ...
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... grief ; but hope will resurrect her from the gloom , like the Prince of Peace and Glory . This grand and terrible lesson of misfortune to the people and their government will prove a valuable instruction by the spirit of conciliation ...
... grief ; but hope will resurrect her from the gloom , like the Prince of Peace and Glory . This grand and terrible lesson of misfortune to the people and their government will prove a valuable instruction by the spirit of conciliation ...
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... grief as sin- cere as profound in receiving the melancholy intelligence of the crime which has just snatched from the United States their Chief Magistrate and one of their most illustrious sons . This sad occurrence is a just motive of ...
... grief as sin- cere as profound in receiving the melancholy intelligence of the crime which has just snatched from the United States their Chief Magistrate and one of their most illustrious sons . This sad occurrence is a just motive of ...
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... grief felt by the govern- ment and people of Chili , at the news of this public calamity , that justly covers your great nation with mourning , will be as profound and sincere as mine . In the name , therefore , of the government and ...
... grief felt by the govern- ment and people of Chili , at the news of this public calamity , that justly covers your great nation with mourning , will be as profound and sincere as mine . In the name , therefore , of the government and ...
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... grief which you have been caused by the catastrophe which has befallen one of those prominent men , the immortal President Lincoln , who has rendered services so important to the country of the free , the republic of the United States ...
... grief which you have been caused by the catastrophe which has befallen one of those prominent men , the immortal President Lincoln , who has rendered services so important to the country of the free , the republic of the United States ...
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Page 123 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 388 - No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON.
Page 399 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 83 - 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 I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 406 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that " the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 409 - As one who knows, where there's a task to do, Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace command ; Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow. That God makes instruments to work His will, If but that will we can arrive to know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill, So he went forth to...
Page 83 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 715 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the late...
Page 408 - His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please...
Page 382 - Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting, that the American people will by means of military arrests during the rebellion lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics during temporary illness as to persist in feeding upon them...