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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... Union , who- ever really and essentially has improved this branch of the service has conferred a benefit upon nations which not only the present but future generations will fully appreciate . Up to 1851 no postal conventions had been ...
... Union , who- ever really and essentially has improved this branch of the service has conferred a benefit upon nations which not only the present but future generations will fully appreciate . Up to 1851 no postal conventions had been ...
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... Union Literary Society of Washington in 1841 , which was published . He also origi- nated a series of Saturday evening literary entertainments at his private residence , which became very popular . Feb- ruary 2 , 1884 , the hundredth ...
... Union Literary Society of Washington in 1841 , which was published . He also origi- nated a series of Saturday evening literary entertainments at his private residence , which became very popular . Feb- ruary 2 , 1884 , the hundredth ...
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... union sweet ? — A pleasant sight to see ! " Oh , happy , happy days were those When life with us was new , And no dark cloud had crossed our path To shadow hope's bright view . " But in this world of ceaseless change , How strong soe'er ...
... union sweet ? — A pleasant sight to see ! " Oh , happy , happy days were those When life with us was new , And no dark cloud had crossed our path To shadow hope's bright view . " But in this world of ceaseless change , How strong soe'er ...
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... Union , he has attained by his own energy , industry , and perseverance an exalted station , and made for himself a name and a reputation of which any man may well be proud . He has succeeded because he has diligently and untiringly ...
... Union , he has attained by his own energy , industry , and perseverance an exalted station , and made for himself a name and a reputation of which any man may well be proud . He has succeeded because he has diligently and untiringly ...
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... Union being preserved . " What , then , was my indignation on learning that men holding office here under your administration were parading the streets here this morn- ing with disunion cockades on their hats ! and the leading article ...
... Union being preserved . " What , then , was my indignation on learning that men holding office here under your administration were parading the streets here this morn- ing with disunion cockades on their hats ! and the leading article ...
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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.