Abraham Lincoln; the Man and the CrisisSmith & Sale, 1910 - 29 Seiten |
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1924 L COPYRIGHT ABRAHAM LINCOLN American appended references art Of winning Atlas-load author at Bowdoin better Black Hawk War Born with strong Bowdoin College centenary address given Chase chin fly Chosen for large COPYRIGHT BY SMITH CRISIS dear benefactor different biographies Douglas England Abolitionist extension of slavery face you look farm father February 12 felt its seriousness FOUNDATIONS R 1924 friends Horace Greeley humor Illinois Inaugural instinct for leadership Kentucky knew large designs Legislature Lincoln celebration Lincoln hate lived loved Massachusetts Missouri Compromise moral Nancy nation nature's masterful ness obeyed pioneer President President's prose style PUBLISHERS 1910 Briggs question race.¹ references has cited rested upon Washington Richard Henry Stoddard road Shot suddenly rough save the Union says secede Secretary Secretary of War Seward slave SMITH & SALE South Springfield Stanton statements that cluster statesman sympathize task Thomas Lincoln thought understood its significance unfought battles won West whit dismayed
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Seite 4 - My Friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot...
Seite 29 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Seite 28 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the...
Seite 16 - The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn; The courage of the bird that dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars...
Seite 2 - WHEN the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need. She took the tried clay of the common road — Clay warm yet with the genial heat of Earth, Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy; Tempered the heap with thrill of human tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff.
Seite 5 - Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just; and that if the slave States, the cotton States, or the gulf States only, choose to form an independent nation THEY HAVE A CLEAR MORAL RIGHT TO DO so.
Seite 29 - I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom Yours, very sincerely and respectfulA.
Seite 20 - This man whose homely face you look upon, Was one of Nature's masterful great men; Born with strong arms, that unfought battles won; Direct of speech and cunning with the pen. Chosen for large designs, he had the art Of winning with his humor, and he went Straight to his mark, which was the human heart; Wise, too, for what he could not break, he bent.