Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other ContemporariesEstes and Lauriat, 1892 - Всего страниц: 601 "Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface. |
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... Congress fifteen years thereafter , his experience in the follow- ing terms , viz : " I am a military hero . In the days of the Black Hawk war I fought , bled and came away . I was not at Stillman's defeat , but I was about as near it ...
... Congress fifteen years thereafter , his experience in the follow- ing terms , viz : " I am a military hero . In the days of the Black Hawk war I fought , bled and came away . I was not at Stillman's defeat , but I was about as near it ...
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... Congress , two in the U. S. Senate and others in high offices , besides some of the best lawyers in the West . The real business of a lawyer in that region , in those early days , occupied but a short time ; and they were wont to get ...
... Congress , two in the U. S. Senate and others in high offices , besides some of the best lawyers in the West . The real business of a lawyer in that region , in those early days , occupied but a short time ; and they were wont to get ...
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... Congress : and , in the year 1846 , he was both nominated for , and elected to , a seat in Congress . In the year 1849 he was an unsuccessful applicant for the office of Commissioner of the General Land Office . In that same year he was ...
... Congress : and , in the year 1846 , he was both nominated for , and elected to , a seat in Congress . In the year 1849 he was an unsuccessful applicant for the office of Commissioner of the General Land Office . In that same year he was ...
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... Congress and for Governor in embryo , and who should by due right have been an U. S. Senator from Illinois for thirty years . It is somewhat singular , that I recollect each one of the other three , specifically ; but that , all that I ...
... Congress and for Governor in embryo , and who should by due right have been an U. S. Senator from Illinois for thirty years . It is somewhat singular , that I recollect each one of the other three , specifically ; but that , all that I ...
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... Congress in the succeeding August ; he was put on trial for his political life , which was all of life that had any charms for him . He opened his defence at Chicago in the succeeding Sep- tember , with indifferent success , and early ...
... Congress in the succeeding August ; he was put on trial for his political life , which was all of life that had any charms for him . He opened his defence at Chicago in the succeeding Sep- tember , with indifferent success , and early ...
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Стр. 281 - Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Стр. 568 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Стр. 208 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
Стр. 278 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Стр. 568 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Стр. 312 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Стр. 389 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Стр. 468 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, • Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Стр. 350 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Стр. 464 - I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through Mie town.