Henry Ward Beecher as His Friends Saw Him

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Pilgrim Press, 1904 - 135 pages
 

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Page 16 - We will not take advantage to destroy, or one whit to abate, your fair political prerogatives. You have already gained advantages of us. These we will allow you to hold. You shall have the Constitution intact, and its full benefit. The full might and power of public sentiment in the North shall guarantee to you everything that history and the Constitution give you. But if you ask us to augment the area of slavery ; to co-operate with you in cursing new territory; if you ask us to make the air of...
Page 16 - ... if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 133 - Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
Page 116 - LORD, what a wretched land is this, That yields us no supply, No cheering fruits, no wholesome trees, Nor streams of living joy.
Page 52 - HY. WARD BEECHER? He is the man who said the best blood of England must be shed to atone for the Trent affair. He is the man who advocates a War of Extermination with the South, — says it is incapable of "re-generation," but proposes to re-people it from the North by "generation.
Page 13 - Divine behest ; yet, so far as human instrumentality is concerned, by all the conscience of a man, by all the faith of a Christian, and by all the zeal and warmth of a philanthropist, I protest against any counsels that lead to insurrection, servile war, and bloodshed. It is bad for the master, bad for the slave, bad for all that are neighbors to them, bad for the whole land, — bad from beginning to end!
Page 55 - ... and bide our time with England, there will be a sense of wrong, of national humiliation so profound, and a horror of the unfeeling selfishness of the English Government, in the great emergency of our affairs, such as will inevitably by and by break out in flames, and will only be extinguished by a deluge of blood!
Page 133 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 52 - Times." MEN OF MANCHESTER, ENGLISHMEN! What reception can you give this wretch, save unmitigated disgust and contempt ? His impudence in coming here is only equalled by his cruelty and impiety Should he. however, venture to appear, it behooves all right-minded men to render as futile as the first this second attempt to get up a public demonstration in favor...
Page 55 - States in which the nation will right any injustice of the present hour." The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, at a meeting held in New York at a time when the Confederate Envoys, Messrs. Slidell and Mason, had been surrendered by President Lincoln to the British Government, from whose vessel (the Royal Mail Steamer Trent) they were taken, said — " That the best blood of England must flow for the outrage England had perpetrated on America.

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