The Story of the Great RepublicAmerican Book Company, 1899 - 349 pages |
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... grant them the Great Charter . This was a new set of laws , giving them the right to be represented in the Par'lia - ment , or congress , which fixed the taxes and made the laws . This right , which Englishmen had enjoyed for five ...
... grant them the Great Charter . This was a new set of laws , giving them the right to be represented in the Par'lia - ment , or congress , which fixed the taxes and made the laws . This right , which Englishmen had enjoyed for five ...
Page 111
... grant it if I can . " It had seemed , for some time past , as if every year some new and important change was taking place . The discovery of coal and the building of canals and railroads were great improvements ; besides , steamboats ...
... grant it if I can . " It had seemed , for some time past , as if every year some new and important change was taking place . The discovery of coal and the building of canals and railroads were great improvements ; besides , steamboats ...
Page 116
... grants into that territory . By the Ash'bur - ton treaty , which had just been signed with Great Britain , the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick had been settled . But , fortunately , nothing had been said about Oregon . The news ...
... grants into that territory . By the Ash'bur - ton treaty , which had just been signed with Great Britain , the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick had been settled . But , fortunately , nothing had been said about Oregon . The news ...
Page 125
... grants of land in Texas , encouraged the people to revolt and form a republic of their own . They did so , and when the Mexicans tried to force them to obey , they won their freedom at the battle of San Ja - cin'to ( 1836 ) . The most ...
... grants of land in Texas , encouraged the people to revolt and form a republic of their own . They did so , and when the Mexicans tried to force them to obey , they won their freedom at the battle of San Ja - cin'to ( 1836 ) . The most ...
Page 131
... Grant , who took part in it , said it was " one of the most unjust wars ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation . " Many other people did not approve of it , either , and when they heard how much money the war cost , some ...
... Grant , who took part in it , said it was " one of the most unjust wars ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation . " Many other people did not approve of it , either , and when they heard how much money the war cost , some ...
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Page 26 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hands of God.
Page 172 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 200 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 102 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Page 246 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in...
Page 221 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 248 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 241 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 166 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.