The School Journal, Volume 70

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1905 - Education

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Page 87 - О Captain ! My Captain ! О Captain ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every wrack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But
Page 93 - honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and
Page 93 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of the 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
Page 93 - Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January in the year
Page 92 - the bread which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." — The Great Debate, Ottawa, Aug. 21, 1858. XI. "I think the authors of that notable instrument (the Declaration of Independence) intended to include all men, but they did not mean to declare all men equal in
Page 93 - 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 have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Tho passion may have strained, it must not
Page 92 - they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration. And so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men
Page 92 - of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects; certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. • But in the right to eat, without the leave of
Page 93 - the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January in the year
Page 381 - Heaven is not reached by a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And mount the summit round by round.

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