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... Civil War , and we emerged from the conflict radiant with the light of liberty established and inde- structible American institutions with the undying vigor of Ameri- can patriotism . The conflict in which we engaged was not made by the ...
... Civil War , and we emerged from the conflict radiant with the light of liberty established and inde- structible American institutions with the undying vigor of Ameri- can patriotism . The conflict in which we engaged was not made by the ...
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... Civil War , their deeds shall be to us the brilliant light which shall grow ever brighter and brighter , and illumine the pathway of the republic to liberty , prosperity and happiness . NS . m which underlies moke lifted from that had 8 ...
... Civil War , their deeds shall be to us the brilliant light which shall grow ever brighter and brighter , and illumine the pathway of the republic to liberty , prosperity and happiness . NS . m which underlies moke lifted from that had 8 ...
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... what pen can draw ? Pathetic , kindly , droll , or stern ; And with a glance so quick to learn The inmost truth of all he saw . -Charles G. Halpine . Sweet Home . ( An incident of the Civil War MEMORIAL DAT SELECTIONS . 15.
... what pen can draw ? Pathetic , kindly , droll , or stern ; And with a glance so quick to learn The inmost truth of all he saw . -Charles G. Halpine . Sweet Home . ( An incident of the Civil War MEMORIAL DAT SELECTIONS . 15.
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Sweet Home . ( An incident of the Civil War . ) The sun had sunk into the distant West ; The cannon ceased to roar , which tells of rest ; Rest from the shedding of a nation's blood , Rest to lay their comrades ' neath the sod . ' Twas ...
Sweet Home . ( An incident of the Civil War . ) The sun had sunk into the distant West ; The cannon ceased to roar , which tells of rest ; Rest from the shedding of a nation's blood , Rest to lay their comrades ' neath the sod . ' Twas ...
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... civil war . " Let us add with thankful hearts that only a great people is capable of a great reconciliation . Side by side , Virginia and Massachusetts led the colonies into the war for independence . Side by side they founded the ...
... civil war . " Let us add with thankful hearts that only a great people is capable of a great reconciliation . Side by side , Virginia and Massachusetts led the colonies into the war for independence . Side by side they founded the ...
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Seite 49 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Seite 64 - 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 51 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Seite 63 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Seite 68 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Seite 67 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Seite 57 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Seite 62 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Seite 37 - And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,