Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party: A Biography and a History, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1917 |
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Página 127 - January, in the year of our Lord 1863, 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 - After four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which . . . the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part," public welfare demands "that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.
Página 196 - These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits; for it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect; its law is progress. A point which was yesterday invisible is its goal today, and will be its
Página 44 - you as near as we possibly can as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you. We mean to leave you alone, and in no way to interfere with your institutions ; to abide by all and every compromise of the Constitution; and, in a word,
Página 231 - against its destruction as proposed by the President and his Party. They serve the interests of Europe; we will support the interests of America. . . . The protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been followed by disaster to all interests except those of the usurer and the sheriff. We denounce the Mills Bill as destructive to
Página 215 - Reform is necessary in the Civil Service. Experience proves that efficient, economical conduct of the Governmental business is not possible if its Civil Service be subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box, be a brief reward for Party zeal, instead of posts of honor
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 183 - co-conspirators could not destroy by the sword, shall be reduced by starvation, And no sooner is the order given than the whole Democratic Party, North and South, leap into the trenches at the rallying cry of their chosen leader, 'He who dallies is a dastard, and he who doubts is damned.' Thus is the siege begun, thus
Página 44 - Fellow-citizens of Kentucky! friends! brethren may I call you in my new position? I see no occasion and feel no inclination to retract a word of this. If it shall not be made good, be assured the fault shall not be mine.
Página 215 - Party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public employ; that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of all our public men, nor the instrument of their ambition.