Sons of the Eagle: Soaring Figures from America's PastBobbs-Merrill Company, 1927 - 321 страници |
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Страница 231 - That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.
Страница 76 - ' My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution, so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties.
Страница 58 - We must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us. .. ... . Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Страница 165 - Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil. . ,. . War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself.
Страница 57 - All America is thrown into one mass. The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
Страница 262 - I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers; you can be good citizens.
Страница 316 - that it is not competent to prove that any of said persons so appointed electors as aforesaid, held an office of trust or profit under the United States at the time when they were appointed, or that they were ineligible under the laws of the state.
Страница 121 - Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed, to encourage a mode of war which those who commanded the sea did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of
Страница 76 - execution, so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties. Integrity and firmness are all I can promise.
Страница 165 - Whilst we intend to prosecute the war with vigor, both by land and by sea, we shall bear the olive branch in one hand, and the sword in the other; and whenever she will accept the former, we shall sheathe the latter.