Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society, Issue 11Illinois State Historical Society., 1906 - Illinois |
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Page 138 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 149 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 150 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these 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 the dead shall not have died in vain— that the Nation shall, under God. have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 296 - The vast assemblage frequently rang with cheers and shouts of applause, which were prolonged and intensified at the close. No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience.
Page 278 - I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of...
Page 62 - And the air was full of fragrance, And the lovely Laughing Water Said with voice that did not tremble, "I will follow you, my husband!
Page 279 - Throughout my heavy and perplexing responsibilities here to the day of his death, it would scarcely wrong any other to say he was my most generous friend. Let him have the marble monument, along with the well-assured and more endearing one in the hearts of those who love liberty unselfishly for all men.
Page 285 - As to speech-making, by way of getting the hang of the House I made a little speech two or three days ago on a post-office question of no general interest. I find speaking here and elsewhere about the same thing. I was about as badly scared, and no worse, as I am when I speak in court. I expect to make one within a week or two, in which I hope to succeed well enough to wish you to see it.
Page 277 - I suppose my opposition to the principle of slavery is as strong as that of any member of the Republican party ; but I have also supposed that the extent to which I feel authorized to carry that opposition, practically, was not at all satisfactory to that party.
Page xv - Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or any two members of the Board.