One Hundred Years in Illinois, 1818-1918: An Account of the Development of Illinois in the First Century of Her Statehood ...Peterson, 1919 - 298 من الصفحات |
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... never found time to make the necessary notes ; but as soon as I was placed on the retired list , I began getting my materials in shape . This coming to the attention of the publisher of THE REPUB- LICAN , a weekly newspaper in Chicago ...
... never found time to make the necessary notes ; but as soon as I was placed on the retired list , I began getting my materials in shape . This coming to the attention of the publisher of THE REPUB- LICAN , a weekly newspaper in Chicago ...
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... never forgot to remain a gentleman , even on the " stump . " McLean was a born orator , a large man , finely pro- portioned , with light complexion , and frank , open face . Men instinctively felt confidence in him , while his eloquence ...
... never forgot to remain a gentleman , even on the " stump . " McLean was a born orator , a large man , finely pro- portioned , with light complexion , and frank , open face . Men instinctively felt confidence in him , while his eloquence ...
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... never jus- tified Cook's prophecy , costing all told about seven million dollars , and bringing to the state treasury a total revenue of about ten million dol- lars , it was , nevertheless , a great improvement , stimulating as it did ...
... never jus- tified Cook's prophecy , costing all told about seven million dollars , and bringing to the state treasury a total revenue of about ten million dol- lars , it was , nevertheless , a great improvement , stimulating as it did ...
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... never asked how much I had paid Crawford , because he had implicit faith in Craw- ford's honesty just as Crawford had in his hon- esty . During my boyhood great strides were made in the settlement of the state and in improvements . The ...
... never asked how much I had paid Crawford , because he had implicit faith in Craw- ford's honesty just as Crawford had in his hon- esty . During my boyhood great strides were made in the settlement of the state and in improvements . The ...
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... never exist in the territory ac- quired from Mexico , for which Lincoln boasted that he voted forty or fifty times . Consistent with the past and prophetic of his future , the first set speech Lincoln made in Con- gress was on the ...
... never exist in the territory ac- quired from Mexico , for which Lincoln boasted that he voted forty or fifty times . Consistent with the past and prophetic of his future , the first set speech Lincoln made in Con- gress was on the ...
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الصفحة 205 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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.
الصفحة 132 - 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.
الصفحة 132 - No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
الصفحة 202 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
الصفحة 96 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view, The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
الصفحة 202 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
الصفحة 40 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her...
الصفحة 34 - Assistance and protection against all enemies whatever, shall be afforded them; and the Commonwealth of Virginia is pledged to accomplish it. But if these people will not accede to these reasonable demands, they must feel the miseries of war, under the direction of that humanity that has hitherto distinguished Americans, and which it is expected you will ever consider as the rule of your conduct, and from which you are in no instance to depart.
الصفحة 38 - These Irish representatives of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the Puritans were in the northeast, and more than the Cavaliers were in the south.
الصفحة 9 - They brought to America no submissive love for England ; and their experience and their religion alike bade them meet oppression with prompt resistance.