The Book of LincolnGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 383 Seiten |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATED ABRAHAM LINCOLN-[Continued Address American battle birth blood born Boston brave bronze brother coln coming crown dark dead death deeds deep DOORYARD BLOOM'D dream earth EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN eyes face face to Fate faith fame Father Abraham flag freedom G. P. Putnam's Sons glory God's grave hand hath heart heaven hero honour hope hour human JAMES OPPENHEIM JOHN KENDRICK BANGS kings knew labour land LILACS LAST LINCOLN'S GRAVE-[Continued living LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN martyr memory mighty mother mourning NATHAN HASKELL DOLE nation never night noble o'er peace people's prairie praise President race RICHARD HENRY STODDARD RICHARD WATSON GILDER shine silence sing slave song sorrow soul spirit stars strife strong sweet sword tears tender thee thou thought to-day toil tribute truth Union voice Walt Whitman Washington WENDELL PHILLIPS West wild York
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Seite 30 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Seite 145 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Seite 47 - States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Seite 49 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Seite 58 - 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 bondman'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.
Seite 148 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Seite 44 - I am Loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Seite 43 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? 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 of this great tribunal of the American people.
Seite 47 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Seite 157 - From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.