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... seemed to make the very heavens rejoice ! Sweet music's charm ! one chord doth make us wild , But change the strain we weep as little child ; Touch yet another , men charge the battery gun And by those martial tones , a victory's won ...
... seemed to make the very heavens rejoice ! Sweet music's charm ! one chord doth make us wild , But change the strain we weep as little child ; Touch yet another , men charge the battery gun And by those martial tones , a victory's won ...
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... seemed to be raised by the demands of great station . " His life through it all was one of great labor , anxiety and distress , without one hour of peaceful repose from first to last . But he rose to every occasion . He led public ...
... seemed to be raised by the demands of great station . " His life through it all was one of great labor , anxiety and distress , without one hour of peaceful repose from first to last . But he rose to every occasion . He led public ...
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... seemed so majestic as that morning , snowy white , looking down upon the tides of men that came surging down , billow after billow . They passed in silence , yet we heard in every step the thunder of conflicts through which they had ...
... seemed so majestic as that morning , snowy white , looking down upon the tides of men that came surging down , billow after billow . They passed in silence , yet we heard in every step the thunder of conflicts through which they had ...
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... seemed to sound out the groans of the crushed and that they had carried . These men came from balmy Minnesota ; those , fro prairies ; these were often hummed to sleep by the pine gon ; those were New England lumbermen ; those came coal ...
... seemed to sound out the groans of the crushed and that they had carried . These men came from balmy Minnesota ; those , fro prairies ; these were often hummed to sleep by the pine gon ; those were New England lumbermen ; those came coal ...
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what seemed end- on after division ng , ever passing -thousands after der to shoulder vined with roses , the shouts that ing of children apitol , to the to- s of enraptured ks of artillery , whose wheels and the dying from Illinois ...
what seemed end- on after division ng , ever passing -thousands after der to shoulder vined with roses , the shouts that ing of children apitol , to the to- s of enraptured ks of artillery , whose wheels and the dying from Illinois ...
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Abraham Lincoln American arms Auld Lang Syne banner battle Betsy Ross birthday blood blue boys brave breath bugle cheer Civil colors country's dead dear death Decoration Day deeds drum duty eyes fame fathers fell field fight Flag Day flowers fought freedom gave girls glorious glory Grand Army grave gray hand heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher heroes hold flags honor Infantry James Russell Lowell Julia Ward land liberty light lives look marching Memorial Day Annual monument morning mother nation neath never night noble o'er passed patriotism peace permission pupil Recitation Regiment Republic shine side sing slave slavery sleep soldiers song soul spirit stand Star Spangled Banner stars stripes sweet tears tell thee thou thousand tion true Union victory W. D. Howells Washington Washington's birthday wave Wisconsin
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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,