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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... issue of this contest is involved the destiny of the species . It is now to be determined whether all republics have this inherent and fatal defect ; that they must be too strong for the liberties of their people or too weak to preserve ...
... issue of this contest is involved the destiny of the species . It is now to be determined whether all republics have this inherent and fatal defect ; that they must be too strong for the liberties of their people or too weak to preserve ...
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... issue . A few days before the surrender , bluff Ben Wade went to the President and urged the removal of Grant as a drunken and incompetent butcher . Lincoln good - naturedly replied , " Senator , that reminds me of a story . " " Yes ...
... issue . A few days before the surrender , bluff Ben Wade went to the President and urged the removal of Grant as a drunken and incompetent butcher . Lincoln good - naturedly replied , " Senator , that reminds me of a story . " " Yes ...
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... issues of the period , and is carried only in part . - Editors . ] Mr. President , gentlemen of the Republican Club , and fellow- guests : The birthday of the man whose memory we celebrate to - night is an appropriate occasion for ...
... issues of the period , and is carried only in part . - Editors . ] Mr. President , gentlemen of the Republican Club , and fellow- guests : The birthday of the man whose memory we celebrate to - night is an appropriate occasion for ...
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... issues of the present ; not by confining ourselves to praising them for the way they applied those principles to issues that are dead . Now , another thing : I have used the word " progressive . " I regard it as absolutely essential ...
... issues of the present ; not by confining ourselves to praising them for the way they applied those principles to issues that are dead . Now , another thing : I have used the word " progressive . " I regard it as absolutely essential ...
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... issues presented , and with- out the opportunity to them for time and study and that delibera- tion that gives security and common sense to the government of the people , such extremists would hurry us into a condition which could find ...
... issues presented , and with- out the opportunity to them for time and study and that delibera- tion that gives security and common sense to the government of the people , such extremists would hurry us into a condition which could find ...
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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.