Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherHartford Publishing Company, 1868 - 575 pages This volume contains brief biographical sketches of several leading politicians, clergymen, reformers and thinkers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's day, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass. |
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... Poor - The British Minister and the Colored Women - The Governor's Kindness to the Soldier's Wife - His Biblical Proclamations - The Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1861 - The Proclama- tion of 1862 - His Interest in the Schools for the ...
... Poor - The British Minister and the Colored Women - The Governor's Kindness to the Soldier's Wife - His Biblical Proclamations - The Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1861 - The Proclama- tion of 1862 - His Interest in the Schools for the ...
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... piercing to the dividing of soul and spirit , joints and marrow , has gone through the earth , and sent every soul with instinctive certainty where it be- WORKING - MEN'S REVOLUTION . 13 longs . The poor 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... piercing to the dividing of soul and spirit , joints and marrow , has gone through the earth , and sent every soul with instinctive certainty where it be- WORKING - MEN'S REVOLUTION . 13 longs . The poor 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... poor laborers of Birmingham and Man- chester , the poor silk weavers of Lyons , to whom our conflict has been present starvation and lingering death , have stood bravely for us . No sophistries could blind or deceive them ; they knew ...
... poor laborers of Birmingham and Man- chester , the poor silk weavers of Lyons , to whom our conflict has been present starvation and lingering death , have stood bravely for us . No sophistries could blind or deceive them ; they knew ...
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... poor to buy , and studying by the light of his evening fire . He soon acquired a name in the country about as a man of resources and shrewdness . He was one that people looked to for counsel in exigencies , and to whom they were ready ...
... poor to buy , and studying by the light of his evening fire . He soon acquired a name in the country about as a man of resources and shrewdness . He was one that people looked to for counsel in exigencies , and to whom they were ready ...
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... poor that he even found it difficult to procure the necessaries of life . For some years he struggled forward , when one day there came a post - office agent , who in pursuance of the routine business of the department , presented to ...
... poor that he even found it difficult to procure the necessaries of life . For some years he struggled forward , when one day there came a post - office agent , who in pursuance of the routine business of the department , presented to ...
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Page 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 335 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 79 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Page 55 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and...
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.