Our Country, in Its Relations to the Past, Present and Future: A National Book, Consisting of Original Articles in Prose and Verse, Contributed by American WritersMrs. Lincoln Phelps J. D. Toy, 1864 - 423 páginas |
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... rebel leaders of those States , who avowedly plunged the country into this desolating war , not from any military necessity , but for the sake of draw- ing the Border States into the conspiracy . Looking for- ward to a future of ...
... rebel leaders of those States , who avowedly plunged the country into this desolating war , not from any military necessity , but for the sake of draw- ing the Border States into the conspiracy . Looking for- ward to a future of ...
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... rebels had shown them- selves fully able to prevent , ) he could not hold out more than forty - eight hours . It was under these circumstances , that General Beauregard commenced a cannonade from eleven batteries on a fortress built by ...
... rebels had shown them- selves fully able to prevent , ) he could not hold out more than forty - eight hours . It was under these circumstances , that General Beauregard commenced a cannonade from eleven batteries on a fortress built by ...
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... rebel emissaries were re- garded by the British Government as a cause of war . Formidable military preparations were instantly set on foot for its declaration , unless satisfactory atonement should be made for " the affront . " Such ...
... rebel emissaries were re- garded by the British Government as a cause of war . Formidable military preparations were instantly set on foot for its declaration , unless satisfactory atonement should be made for " the affront . " Such ...
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... rebel leaders in the attack on Fort Sumter . The actual violence done to that vessel consisted in a detention of three hours , without a harsh word on the part of the boarding officer , * a gentleman as courteous and mild as he is firm ...
... rebel leaders in the attack on Fort Sumter . The actual violence done to that vessel consisted in a detention of three hours , without a harsh word on the part of the boarding officer , * a gentleman as courteous and mild as he is firm ...
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... rebel leaders , instead of conducing to perfect har- mony and peace , would result either in the establishment of two rival and hostile powers engaged in eternal border war with each other , or in the breaking up of both sec- tions into ...
... rebel leaders , instead of conducing to perfect har- mony and peace , would result either in the establishment of two rival and hostile powers engaged in eternal border war with each other , or in the breaking up of both sec- tions into ...
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Página 260 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Página v - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Página 261 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Página 260 - Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness; looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt away with fervent heat.
Página iv - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Página 290 - When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!
Página iv - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all.
Página 260 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Página 397 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 27 - II. in 1660, — twenty years of discord, conflict, and civil war ; of confiscation, plunder, havoc ; a proud hereditary peerage trampled in the dust ; a national church overturned, its clergy beggared, its most eminent prelate put to death ; a military despotism established on the ruins of a monarchy which had subsisted seven hundred years, and the legitimate sovereign brought to the block ; the great families which adhered to the king proscribed, impoverished, ruined ; prisoners of war — a fate...