The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together with Poetical Extracts Adapted for Recitation, and Dramatic Pieces for ExhibitionsA.S Barnes & Burr, 1864 - 524 Seiten |
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... million slaves in the fifteen South- ern States . That population , doubling itself , according to the census returns , every twenty - five years , 5 SPEECHES OF THE TIMES . 49 Let Us alone Tappan The Limitation of Slavery Resisted ...
... million slaves in the fifteen South- ern States . That population , doubling itself , according to the census returns , every twenty - five years , 5 SPEECHES OF THE TIMES . 49 Let Us alone Tappan The Limitation of Slavery Resisted ...
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... millions . What else is true ? It is a fact known to all , that in the border counties of Maryland , Virginia ... million negroes placed on a footing of equal- ity with ourselves , our wives and children ? If you do , I tell you that you ...
... millions . What else is true ? It is a fact known to all , that in the border counties of Maryland , Virginia ... million negroes placed on a footing of equal- ity with ourselves , our wives and children ? If you do , I tell you that you ...
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... millions of people - let them determine whether it is better that slavery should go there or not ; let that question come here , where we look at this great country , and all the Terri- tories we have , and all we may ever acquire , as ...
... millions of people - let them determine whether it is better that slavery should go there or not ; let that question come here , where we look at this great country , and all the Terri- tories we have , and all we may ever acquire , as ...
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... million dollars for the mere privilege of enjoying one of God's bounties to man . This large amount has been abstracted from the sons of toil without rendering any equivalent , save a permit from the State to occupy a wilderness , to ...
... million dollars for the mere privilege of enjoying one of God's bounties to man . This large amount has been abstracted from the sons of toil without rendering any equivalent , save a permit from the State to occupy a wilderness , to ...
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... million slaves in this country , there is not a single husband or wife . There is not legally a single father or child . There is not a single home or hearthstone among these four millions . And you propose to civilize and Christianize ...
... million slaves in this country , there is not a single husband or wife . There is not legally a single father or child . There is not a single home or hearthstone among these four millions . And you propose to civilize and Christianize ...
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Seite 248 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Seite 336 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Seite 422 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Seite 338 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Seite 259 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Seite 205 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Seite 338 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Seite 415 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Seite 84 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories and to overrun us here in these free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Seite 255 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud, To rise before me - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth!