The Making of an OrationA. C. McClurg & Company, 1913 - 419 páginas |
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... North , sympathizers with the secessionists , and they had come prepared to break up the meeting . When the speaker appeared he was greeted with jeers , catcalls , yells , hisses , insults , dead cats , over- ripe eggs , and decayed ...
... North , sympathizers with the secessionists , and they had come prepared to break up the meeting . When the speaker appeared he was greeted with jeers , catcalls , yells , hisses , insults , dead cats , over- ripe eggs , and decayed ...
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Clark Mills Brink. from Arabic , Hebrew , Persian , Ethiopian , Russian , North American Indian , French , Italian , Spanish , Ger- man , Danish , Scandinavian , Chinese , Japanese , and many other tongues . Consequently our language is ...
Clark Mills Brink. from Arabic , Hebrew , Persian , Ethiopian , Russian , North American Indian , French , Italian , Spanish , Ger- man , Danish , Scandinavian , Chinese , Japanese , and many other tongues . Consequently our language is ...
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... North Street , laboring there among the poor and depraved . Their worship should be put- ting their gifts to use , not sitting down and hearing for the hundredth time a repetition of arguments against theft . There will never be any ...
... North Street , laboring there among the poor and depraved . Their worship should be put- ting their gifts to use , not sitting down and hearing for the hundredth time a repetition of arguments against theft . There will never be any ...
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... north , and south will demand its repeal . But , gentlemen , I feel it my duty to say , that , if I should be disappointed in this expectation , I see no immediate relief to the distresses of the community . I greatly fear , even ...
... north , and south will demand its repeal . But , gentlemen , I feel it my duty to say , that , if I should be disappointed in this expectation , I see no immediate relief to the distresses of the community . I greatly fear , even ...
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... banner , and counts it the pledge of his redemption . Hitherto it may have meant what you thought , or what I did ; today it represents sovereignty and justice . Further along he said , " The North thinks *** General Qualities of Style 143.
... banner , and counts it the pledge of his redemption . Hitherto it may have meant what you thought , or what I did ; today it represents sovereignty and justice . Further along he said , " The North thinks *** General Qualities of Style 143.
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Página 212 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death...
Página 147 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? ' Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Página 225 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." 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.
Página 212 - Three millions of People, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Página 147 - Mr President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Página 224 - 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.
Página 228 - 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...
Página 338 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Página 223 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 91 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!