Addresses Delivered at the Lincoln Dinners of the National Republican Club in Response to the Toast Abraham Lincoln, 1910-1927Priv. print. for the National Republican Club, 1927 - 478 pages |
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... asked if Lincoln would marry a negress . Lincoln answered : " There may be senses in which the negro is inferior to the white man , but in the right to eat the bread which his own hands have earned he is the equal of Judge Douglas or of ...
... asked if Lincoln would marry a negress . Lincoln answered : " There may be senses in which the negro is inferior to the white man , but in the right to eat the bread which his own hands have earned he is the equal of Judge Douglas or of ...
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... asked what disposition was to be made of the body , she answered : “ Take out the eels and set him again . " As the debates progressed the politicians chafed Lincoln on Douglas's superiority , and asked him to acknowledge his defeat ...
... asked what disposition was to be made of the body , she answered : “ Take out the eels and set him again . " As the debates progressed the politicians chafed Lincoln on Douglas's superiority , and asked him to acknowledge his defeat ...
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... asked by a prominent neighbor to intercede for her son . Stevens ' refusal would have cost him hundreds of votes , and he accompanied the lady to the White House with the best grace he could . Lincoln took in the situation at a glance ...
... asked by a prominent neighbor to intercede for her son . Stevens ' refusal would have cost him hundreds of votes , and he accompanied the lady to the White House with the best grace he could . Lincoln took in the situation at a glance ...
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... asked earnestly in prayer to know it ? Secondly : Was it probable if God sought outside agency He would send it through Chicago ? To the members of the Cabinet , who thought the President's humor- ous reading an ill - timed prelude to ...
... asked earnestly in prayer to know it ? Secondly : Was it probable if God sought outside agency He would send it through Chicago ? To the members of the Cabinet , who thought the President's humor- ous reading an ill - timed prelude to ...
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National Republican Club, inc. tuneness and phraseology , he asked their criticism . He could not seek their advice as to its scope . To do so would be disingenuous . He continued : " When the Rebels invaded Maryland I promised my Maker ...
National Republican Club, inc. tuneness and phraseology , he asked their criticism . He could not seek their advice as to its scope . To do so would be disingenuous . He continued : " When the Rebels invaded Maryland I promised my Maker ...
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Page 465 - The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh...
Page 134 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 304 - South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth...
Page 262 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 304 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if 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, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 465 - ... 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...
Page 135 - In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 143 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 261 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil- star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Page 207 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.