Turning on the Light: A Dispassionate Survey of President Buchanan's Administration, from 1860 to Its Close. Including a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Eight Letters from Mr. Buchanan Never Before Published, and Numerous Miscellaneous Articles |
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... Department ? There , if anywhere , the whole lesson was presented , and by a careful , diligent , and intelligent observer could be thoroughly learned . And in that school , as was proved by his successive promotions , and especially by ...
... Department ? There , if anywhere , the whole lesson was presented , and by a careful , diligent , and intelligent observer could be thoroughly learned . And in that school , as was proved by his successive promotions , and especially by ...
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... Department , tendered him by the then Postmaster - General , Amos Kendall . Thus , at the foot of the ladder , he commenced that connection which proved alike beneficial to the country and honorable to himself , and whence he climbed ...
... Department , tendered him by the then Postmaster - General , Amos Kendall . Thus , at the foot of the ladder , he commenced that connection which proved alike beneficial to the country and honorable to himself , and whence he climbed ...
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... Department against fraud and loss of revenue were per- sistent . He especially labored to defeat all attempts to use the mails without paying for the privilege in contravention of the law and to the detriment of an already overburdened ...
... Department against fraud and loss of revenue were per- sistent . He especially labored to defeat all attempts to use the mails without paying for the privilege in contravention of the law and to the detriment of an already overburdened ...
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... Department , he was appointed , in April , 1862 , one of a Board of Commissioners to carry out the provisions of the Emancipation Procla- mation in the District of Columbia . This position was tendered him by President Lincoln ...
... Department , he was appointed , in April , 1862 , one of a Board of Commissioners to carry out the provisions of the Emancipation Procla- mation in the District of Columbia . This position was tendered him by President Lincoln ...
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... departments and international commissions , which he followed until about twenty years ago , when he retired as far as practicable from active work . Mr. King has twice made the tour of Europe , first in 1867 and again in 1875-76 . The ...
... departments and international commissions , which he followed until about twenty years ago , when he retired as far as practicable from active work . Mr. King has twice made the tour of Europe , first in 1867 and again in 1875-76 . The ...
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Page 380 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove...
Page 380 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, : Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...
Page 65 - 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. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest...
Page 65 - 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.
Page 65 - The constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but, emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by " the people of the United States.
Page 65 - The government of the Union, then, (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case,) is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Page 107 - The long-continued and intemperate interference of the northern people with the question of slavery in the southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived, so much dreaded by the Father of his Country, when hostile geographical parties have been formed.
Page 69 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 180 - It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box.
Page 115 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.