Presidents of the United States from Pierce to McKinleyLinscott Publishing Company, 1907 - 476 pages |
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... Military Company at Bowdoin College . - Begins the Study of Law . - Fails in His First Case . - A Successful Stump Orator . - Elected to the New Hampshire Legislature . - Speaker of the House . - Elected to Congress at the Age of Twenty ...
... Military Company at Bowdoin College . - Begins the Study of Law . - Fails in His First Case . - A Successful Stump Orator . - Elected to the New Hampshire Legislature . - Speaker of the House . - Elected to Congress at the Age of Twenty ...
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... Military Governor of Tennessee . -His Able Administration Wins Admiration of Lincoln . -Nominated for the Vice - Presidency in 1864. - Speaks with Energy against the Secessionists . - Sworn in as President . His Inaugural Address ...
... Military Governor of Tennessee . -His Able Administration Wins Admiration of Lincoln . -Nominated for the Vice - Presidency in 1864. - Speaks with Energy against the Secessionists . - Sworn in as President . His Inaugural Address ...
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... for Existence . - A Clerk in Galena . - The Civil War Rouses his Military Ardor . - Given Command of a Regiment . - Proves himself a Fine Organizer . - Raised 149 177 to the Rank of Brigadier - General . - His xiv CONTENTS .
... for Existence . - A Clerk in Galena . - The Civil War Rouses his Military Ardor . - Given Command of a Regiment . - Proves himself a Fine Organizer . - Raised 149 177 to the Rank of Brigadier - General . - His xiv CONTENTS .
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... Military Administrator at Memphis.- Wins a Victory over the Confederates at Corinth.- Plans to Capture Vicksburg . — A Protracted Siege . - The Surrender of Vicksburg . - His Plans once more Thwarted by Halleck . - Severely Injured at ...
... Military Administrator at Memphis.- Wins a Victory over the Confederates at Corinth.- Plans to Capture Vicksburg . — A Protracted Siege . - The Surrender of Vicksburg . - His Plans once more Thwarted by Halleck . - Severely Injured at ...
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... of his Military Career . - One of the Ablest Members of Congress . - Chosen as Senator- Elect from the State of Ohio . - Nominated for Pres- PAGS 276 ident by the Republican Party in 1880. - Elected on xviii CONTENTS .
... of his Military Career . - One of the Ablest Members of Congress . - Chosen as Senator- Elect from the State of Ohio . - Nominated for Pres- PAGS 276 ident by the Republican Party in 1880. - Elected on xviii CONTENTS .
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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.