Presidents of the United States from Pierce to McKinleyLinscott Publishing Company, 1907 - 476 pages |
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... Matters on the Constitution.- Democratic Convention meets at Cincinnati , June , 1856 . -Buchanan Declared the Nominee of the Democrats.- Pierce Retires to his Concord Home . - When Secession Begins Stands with the Union and the North ...
... Matters on the Constitution.- Democratic Convention meets at Cincinnati , June , 1856 . -Buchanan Declared the Nominee of the Democrats.- Pierce Retires to his Concord Home . - When Secession Begins Stands with the Union and the North ...
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... XIII . PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT ( CONCLUDED ) . The United States Government Turns its Attention to Mexican Matters . - The French Army Withdraws from PAGE 188 PAGE Mexico . - Lee and Others Indicted for Rebellion CONTENTS . XV.
... XIII . PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT ( CONCLUDED ) . The United States Government Turns its Attention to Mexican Matters . - The French Army Withdraws from PAGE 188 PAGE Mexico . - Lee and Others Indicted for Rebellion CONTENTS . XV.
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... matter in literature or in history to draw hard and fast lines separating one age from another , but certain great events in literature and history seem to distinctly mark epochs . In a sense the defeat of General Winfield Scott for the ...
... matter in literature or in history to draw hard and fast lines separating one age from another , but certain great events in literature and history seem to distinctly mark epochs . In a sense the defeat of General Winfield Scott for the ...
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... matter of the petitions that were laid before the House on the slavery question . The right of petition is a right dear to all modern minds and par- ticularly so to those of Anglo - Saxon blood , and yet Pierce was one of the select ...
... matter of the petitions that were laid before the House on the slavery question . The right of petition is a right dear to all modern minds and par- ticularly so to those of Anglo - Saxon blood , and yet Pierce was one of the select ...
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... matter , with so many good men to choose from , to come to a decision . There was at first no thought of Pierce , but on the fourth day of the Convention his name was brought up , and it was at once seen FRANKLIN PIERCE . 25.
... matter , with so many good men to choose from , to come to a decision . There was at first no thought of Pierce , but on the fourth day of the Convention his name was brought up , and it was at once seen FRANKLIN PIERCE . 25.
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Page 221 - GENERAL: — I have received your note of this day. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 147 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up! for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning. Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 136 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 74 - 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...
Page 136 - 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 36 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 147 - For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 147 - O Captain ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain ! my Captain...
Page 135 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 135 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.