 | Josiah Bushnell Grinnell - 1891 - 464 pages
...fall, let our last hours be stained by no weakness. If we must fall, let us stand amid the crash of tho falling Republic and be buried in its ruins, so that...world, ' I nursed and brought up children and they have rebelled against me '." Oakes Ames was one of the quiet but potent factors in the War Era. It is dangerous... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 pages
...middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but chastised by God for the sins of our forefathers. Let the ruins of the Republic remain..." I nursed and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." able. He said, alluding to the freedom of debate in the British Parliament: *... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 pages
...middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but chastised by God for the sins of our forefathers. Let the ruins of the Republic remain...a sad wail to the nations of the world, " I nursed andJ>rought up children, and they have rebelled against me." Mr. Pendleton of Ohio, closed the debate... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 pages
...middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but chastised by God for the sins of our forefathers. Let the ruins of the Republic remain...greatness and our heroism. And let Liberty, crownless aud childless, sit upon these ruins, crying aloud in a sad wail to the nations of the world, " I nursed... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 616 pages
...not fail. I have an abiding confidence in the firmness, the patience, the endurance of the American people; and, having vowed to stand in history on the...world, "I nursed and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." (Great applause on the floor and in the galleries.) THE ENROLLMENT BELL. ON the... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1867 - 598 pages
...wisdom on the waywardness of men, shall drop a tear as he records with sorrow the vain heroism ofthat people who dedicated and sacrificed themselves to...world, "I nursed and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." (Great applause on the floor and in the galleries.) THE ENEOLLMENT BILL. ON the... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1885 - 766 pages
...untarnished to go down to future generations. If we must fall, let our last hours be stained by no weakness, let the ruins of the Republic remain to testify to...childless, sit upon these ruins crying aloud in a sad way to the nations of the world, ' I once brought up children and they have rebelled against me.' "... | |
 | Josiah Bushnell Grinnell - 1891 - 678 pages
...not fail. I have an abiding confidence in the firmness, the patience, the endurance of the American people ; and, having vowed to stand in history on...world, ' I nursed and brought up children and they have rebelled against me '." Oakes Ames was one of the quiet but potent factors in the War Era. It is dangerous... | |
 | Bernard Christian Steiner - 1916 - 430 pages
...for its last sentences still stir one's blood. "If we must fall, let our last hours be stained with no weakness; if we must fall, let us stand amid the...and childless, sit upon these ruins, crying aloud with a sad wail to the nations of the world: 'I nursed and brought up children and they have rebelled... | |
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Yes, sir, if we must fall, let our last hours be stained by no weakness. If we must fall, let us stand amid the crash of the falling Republic and be buried in its ruins, so that history may take note that men lived in the middle of the nineteenth century... 
