A.D. 1830

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P.F. Collier & Son, 1908

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2180. oldal - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
2264. oldal - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
2005. oldal - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
2063. oldal - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the...
2188. oldal - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.
2010. oldal - He shall not be called upon to perform any ceremony derogatory to him as representing the Sovereign of an independent nation on a footing of equality with that of China.
2030. oldal - The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold ! GOLD ! ! GOLD...
2205. oldal - Will our Generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil.
2065. oldal - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
2063. oldal - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives ; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.

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