Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party: A Biography and a History, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1917 |
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... expression of his personal choice . To keep a diary is an evidence of introspection . Senator Burrows was not a voluminous corre- spondent , preferring the more direct appeal of per- sonal intercourse . During his long life of National ...
... expression of his personal choice . To keep a diary is an evidence of introspection . Senator Burrows was not a voluminous corre- spondent , preferring the more direct appeal of per- sonal intercourse . During his long life of National ...
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... expression in his active participa- tion in the campaign , during which he made his earliest political speeches ; and the defeat of his favorite only emphasized in his mind the necessity for further and greater effort to bring success ...
... expression in his active participa- tion in the campaign , during which he made his earliest political speeches ; and the defeat of his favorite only emphasized in his mind the necessity for further and greater effort to bring success ...
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... expression of the sympathy which until then he had kept silently within himself . By aiding Douglass , he felt that he had taken a definite step toward freeing the slaves , and he enjoyed to the full the consciousness of his early ...
... expression of the sympathy which until then he had kept silently within himself . By aiding Douglass , he felt that he had taken a definite step toward freeing the slaves , and he enjoyed to the full the consciousness of his early ...
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... expression of his opinion at the polls , but also in making use of his power as a speaker , even as a youth , in stimulat- ing others to his own high pitch of enthusiasm . Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12 , 1861 , and three days ...
... expression of his opinion at the polls , but also in making use of his power as a speaker , even as a youth , in stimulat- ing others to his own high pitch of enthusiasm . Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12 , 1861 , and three days ...
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... expression and grandiloquent in style , but it displays the boy's tem- per , and pictures the sentiment of the period : " When this direful rebellion first showed its hide- ous front , and commenced its war of murder and rapine , " he ...
... expression and grandiloquent in style , but it displays the boy's tem- per , and pictures the sentiment of the period : " When this direful rebellion first showed its hide- ous front , and commenced its war of murder and rapine , " he ...
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Página 196 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 127 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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...
Página 118 - That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war...
Página 43 - When we do as we say, beat you, you perhaps want to know what we will do with you. I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. We mean to treat you, as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you.
Página 231 - We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection ; we protest against its destruction as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe ; we will support the interests of America.
Página 196 - For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.
Página 293 - If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?
Página 218 - There is a class of government positions which are not within the letter of the Civil Service statute, but which are so disconnected with the policy of an administration that the removal therefrom of present incumbents, in my opinion, should not be made during the terms for which they were appointed solely on partisan grounds and for the purpose of putting in their places those who are in political accord with the appointing power.
Página 114 - One low grave, yon trees beneath, Bears no roses, wears no wreath; Yet no heart more high and warm Ever dared the battle-storm, Never gleamed a prouder eye In the front of victory, Never foot had firmer tread On the field where hope lay dead, Than are hid within this tomb Where the untended grasses bloom, And no stone, with feigned distress, Mocks the sacred loneliness.
Página 44 - We mean to remember that you are as good as we; that there is no difference between us other than the difference of circumstances. We mean to recognize and bear in mind always that you have as good hearts in your bosoms as other people, or as we claim to have, and treat you accordingly.