Addresses Delivered at the Lincoln Dinners of the Republican Club of the City of New York in Response to the Toast Abraham Lincoln, 1887-1909Priv. print. for the Republican Club of the City of New York, 1909 - 358 páginas |
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Abraham Lincoln ADDRESS Æsop American ANNUAL LINCOLN DINNER army battle believe Black Hawk War born called character citizens City civil coln colored conservatism Constitution courage Declaration of Independence Democratic Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation equal faith fame father feel flag forever friends Gettysburg glory hand Hannibal Hamlin heart hero honor hope HORACE PORTER hour human Illinois immortal judgment justice knew labor land leader learned liberty live LL.D memory ment millions MORRIS SHEPPARD Mugwump nation never night North orator patriotism peace Pilgrim's Progress plain political President and Gentlemen principles Proclamation race rebellion republic REPUBLICAN CLUB Republican party Sangamon County Senator slave slavery soul South speech spirit stand stars story struggle tariff things thought tion to-day to-night true truth Union United utterance victory Washington words York FEBRUARY 12 young
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Página 23 - A man's heart deviseth his way : but the LORD directeth his steps.
Página 129 - 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...
Página 206 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Página 212 - 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.
Página 130 - 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 211 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 48 - Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with which, success is certain. Again I bid you all an affectionate farewell.
Página 57 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 9 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Página 95 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!