Retrospections of an Active Life: 1863-1865Baker & Taylor, 1909 - France |
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3d category American April Archduke Arman army asked assurance believe belligerent Berryer BIGELOW TO SEWARD Bordeaux Chargé d'Affaires civil Cobden communication Confederate Consul copy Corps Législatif correspondence court Danish Dayton dear Sir Department despatch diplomatic Drouyn de Lhuys duty Emperor enclosure England Ernest Picard Europe Excellency expression fact favor feel Ferrol Foreign Affairs France French Government give honor hope Imperial insurgents interest Jules Favre laws of France letter letter of credence London Lord Palmerston Majesty March Marquis de Montholon Maximilian ment Mexican Mexico Minister of Foreign Nantes Navy neutrality never occasion official Olinde opinion PARIS peace person political port present question Rappahannock received regard relations reply republic Secretary Senate sent sentiments SEWARD LEGATION SEWARD TO BIGELOW ships slavery Slidell speech steamer Stonewall sympathy tion Translation United vessel Washington wish yesterday
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Page 500 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 548 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ! Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Page 566 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 505 - The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 101 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of...
Page 565 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 469 - 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...
Page 597 - You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! • You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair. His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please!
Page 505 - 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...
Page 599 - Such were the needs that helped his youth to train: Rough culture — but such trees large fruit may bear If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So he grew up, a destined work to do, And lived to do it; four long-suffering years...