Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890: Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the WarRichmond, Croscup & Company, 1893 - 434 pages |
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... young countrymen how they may emulate his noble pur- poses and perpetuate his fame , that-- " While the races of mankind endure , So shall his great example stand Colossal , glorious , seen in every land To keep the soldier firm , the ...
... young countrymen how they may emulate his noble pur- poses and perpetuate his fame , that-- " While the races of mankind endure , So shall his great example stand Colossal , glorious , seen in every land To keep the soldier firm , the ...
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... young anti - slavery Whig , was in the hotel . He was sent for , came , and , after our action was explained , agreed to join us and to become the temporary editor of the Cour- ier . We then subscribed fifty dollars each to the ...
... young anti - slavery Whig , was in the hotel . He was sent for , came , and , after our action was explained , agreed to join us and to become the temporary editor of the Cour- ier . We then subscribed fifty dollars each to the ...
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... young lawyer from New York City . He was said to be an immense card - a man of extraordinary brilliancy and adroitness . He had just written some excoriation of the Hunkers which had given him great éclat . His name was Samuel J. Tilden ...
... young lawyer from New York City . He was said to be an immense card - a man of extraordinary brilliancy and adroitness . He had just written some excoriation of the Hunkers which had given him great éclat . His name was Samuel J. Tilden ...
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... Young man , you have chosen a good part . Persevere to the end , which you may see , but I shall not . The recent ag- gressions of the slave power may destroy the old parties , but they will perpetuate the republic . You have enlisted ...
... Young man , you have chosen a good part . Persevere to the end , which you may see , but I shall not . The recent ag- gressions of the slave power may destroy the old parties , but they will perpetuate the republic . You have enlisted ...
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... young inex- perience or because he took a fancy to me , Mr. Davis gave me a large amount of useful advice and instruc- tion in bank management . One day when we were alone in his room he said to me : " Would you like to know one way of ...
... young inex- perience or because he took a fancy to me , Mr. Davis gave me a large amount of useful advice and instruc- tion in bank management . One day when we were alone in his room he said to me : " Would you like to know one way of ...
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Page 414 - Do not misunderstand me because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties that have thus far prevented my action in some such way as you desire. I have not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves, but hold the matter under advisement. And I can assure you that the subject is on my mind by day and night, more than any other. Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do.
Page 414 - The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
Page 77 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first : and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Page 220 - And surely I'll be mine; And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne.
Page 389 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.
Page 415 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 413 - ... machinery of the States and the Union, has produced in a given time, and also what, if firmly maintained, it promises for the future. There are already among us those who, if the Union be preserved, will live to see it contain two hundred and fifty millions. The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day — it is for a vast future also.
Page 413 - If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.
Page 399 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery—subordination to the superior race —is his natural and normal condition.
Page 418 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.