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Common terms and phrasesAbraham Lincoln ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATED American BANNER MEMORIES battle birth blood bloom for Walt born Boston brave bronze brother Captain coln coming Continued crown dark dead death deeds deep DOORYARD dream earth eyes face faith fame Father Abraham flag Frederick Burton freedom G. P. Putnam's Sons GETTYSBURG ODE glory God's hand hath heart hero honour hope hour human James Oppenheim John Kendrick Bangs John Townsend Trowbridge kings knew labour land lilacs for Abraham LILACS LAST LINCOLN HIGHWAY LINCOLN-CHILD LINCOLN'S GRAVE living Lyman Whitney Allen martyr mighty mother mourn Nathan Haskell Dole nation never night noble o'er peace people's prairie praise President race Reginald Wright Richard Watson Gilder shine sing slave song soul spirit stars strife strong sweet tears thee thou thought to-day toil Union voice Walt Whitman Washington Wendell Phillips West Whitman And lilacs wild York Popular passagesPage 30 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively... Page 163 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. Page 47 - States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Page 49 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. Page 58 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Page 166 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Page 44 - I am Loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. Page 43 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. Page 47 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free... Page 175 - From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. |