The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Volume 8Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1895 - Biography |
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Page 62
... road for the invasion of the North or for attacks upon Washington . The last of these attempts had been made by General J. A. Early , in July , when he was only prevented from the capture of that city by the stubborn resistance of ...
... road for the invasion of the North or for attacks upon Washington . The last of these attempts had been made by General J. A. Early , in July , when he was only prevented from the capture of that city by the stubborn resistance of ...
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... road . President Grant firmly resisted the pressure brought upon him to expand the currency by a fresh issue of green- backs , and secured the passage of an act of Congress directing the resumption of specie payments in 1879 . The ...
... road . President Grant firmly resisted the pressure brought upon him to expand the currency by a fresh issue of green- backs , and secured the passage of an act of Congress directing the resumption of specie payments in 1879 . The ...
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... road to Port Gibson - a point , the pos- session of which necessarily menaced the rebel fortifications at Grand Gulf . The garrison here understood well enough the nature of such movement , and four miles in front of Port Gibson strove ...
... road to Port Gibson - a point , the pos- session of which necessarily menaced the rebel fortifications at Grand Gulf . The garrison here understood well enough the nature of such movement , and four miles in front of Port Gibson strove ...
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... road on which he moved suddenly bend down so as to bring him fairly upon the enemy's rear . Hovey was being once more repulsed , in spite of supports , when Pemberton discov- ered this new source of danger and hastily drew off . Then ...
... road on which he moved suddenly bend down so as to bring him fairly upon the enemy's rear . Hovey was being once more repulsed , in spite of supports , when Pemberton discov- ered this new source of danger and hastily drew off . Then ...
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... night on the old battle- field of Hooker . Warren advanced southward by the Stevens- burg plank - road six miles , to Old Wilderness Tavern . Sedg- wick remained close to the river . Burnside had orders GENERAL U. S. GRANT . 85.
... night on the old battle- field of Hooker . Warren advanced southward by the Stevens- burg plank - road six miles , to Old Wilderness Tavern . Sedg- wick remained close to the river . Burnside had orders GENERAL U. S. GRANT . 85.
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Page 11 - 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...
Page 37 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 36 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth 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 battle-field 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.
Page 37 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 38 - 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.
Page 17 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 45 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up— for you the flag is flung— for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 337 - Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms.
Page 338 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 102 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...