The Life of Schuyler ColfaxT.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1868 - 370 pagina's |
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Pagina 269 - have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot-grave to every living heart and hearthstone all
Pagina 267 - you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with which success is certain. Again I bid you an affectionate farewell.' "Before that murderous blow closed his eyes in death, that ' success' for which he had struggled was assured —that ' duty' devolved upon him had been performed,
Pagina 381 - XI. Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development and resources and increase of power to this republic, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy. "XII. This Convention declares itself in sympathy with all
Pagina 264 - ' My paramount object is to save the Union, and I would save it in the shortest way. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would also do that.
Pagina 269 - military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.' " The solemn words of his last Inaugural sound in my ears
Pagina 208 - This famous resolution, fully answers this Valparaiso resolution, for it says: ' This deplorable war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States, now in revolt against the Constitutional Government, and in arms around the Capital.
Pagina 177 - yourself. To me the most beautiful couplet in the English language is— "' Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.' "None of us can live up to this noble lesson of life fully;
Pagina 310 - necessary and proper for carrying into execution all powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof, the duty and its exercise seem to have been specifically anticipated by the framers of the Supreme Law. Since President
Pagina 65 - degrees thirty minutes north latitude, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall be forever prohibited,' shall not be so construed as to apply to
Pagina 278 - intend to point them to the gold and silver that waits for them in the West. Tell the miners, from me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability, because their prosperity is the prosperity of the nation; and," said he, his eye kindling with enthusiasm, "we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the