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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... believe the capture of Vicksburg to have been the greatest victory of the war . There is not the halo around it which en- velops Gettysburg or Winchester or Appomattox , but in future fame , I think , it will surpass them all . As a ...
... believe the capture of Vicksburg to have been the greatest victory of the war . There is not the halo around it which en- velops Gettysburg or Winchester or Appomattox , but in future fame , I think , it will surpass them all . As a ...
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... believe they should be committed to memory by our youth . When the shock of the Civil War came , Webster's speeches for the Un- ion helped to unite and nerve the North . In a much higher sense the Lincoln classics will stimulate ...
... believe they should be committed to memory by our youth . When the shock of the Civil War came , Webster's speeches for the Un- ion helped to unite and nerve the North . In a much higher sense the Lincoln classics will stimulate ...
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... believe we have a strong case if we can only get it into the minds of the people . Should disaster follow us and the Republican majority in the House become a minority in the next House , it may be possible that in the Democratic ...
... believe we have a strong case if we can only get it into the minds of the people . Should disaster follow us and the Republican majority in the House become a minority in the next House , it may be possible that in the Democratic ...
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... believe in a strong or efficient government , but who in a certain sense did trust the people — although it was really distrust of them to keep the gov- ernment weak . And therefore for decades we oscillated between the two tendencies ...
... believe in a strong or efficient government , but who in a certain sense did trust the people — although it was really distrust of them to keep the gov- ernment weak . And therefore for decades we oscillated between the two tendencies ...
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... believe , and you do not believe , in making terminology into a fetich . Abraham Lincoln was progressive compared to Buchanan and Fillmore ; compared to Wendell Phillips and John Brown he was conservative ; and he was right in both ...
... believe , and you do not believe , in making terminology into a fetich . Abraham Lincoln was progressive compared to Buchanan and Fillmore ; compared to Wendell Phillips and John Brown he was conservative ; and he was right in both ...
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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.