A Political History of the State of New York: 1861-1882H. Holt and Company, 1909 |
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Pogosti izrazi in povedi
accepted action Administration Albany Appeals appointed army ballot became bitter Blaine Buren campaign Canal Commissioner Canal ring candidate chairman committee Comptroller Congress Conkling Conkling's conservative Constitution contest convention corruption Curtis Dean Richmond declared defeat delegates Demo Depew Dickinson election favour Fenton frauds friends George William Curtis Governor Hoffman Horace Greeley Horatio Seymour Ibid influence John July Kelly Kernan leaders Legislature letter Lincoln Lucius Robinson Lyman Tremaine majority ment Morgan negro Nicolay-Hay nomination North November October organisation patriotic peace platform political present President President's Preston King Prison Inspector Radicals Raymond rebellion reform refused renomination Republican Reuben E ring Roscoe Conkling Secretary Senate sentiment September September 27 Seward slavery soldiers South Southern speaker speech suffrage Syracuse Tammany Thurlow Weed ticket Tilden tion Tremaine Tweed Union United vote Wadsworth William wrote York City York Herald York Tribune York World
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Stran 28 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Stran 367 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, — that, of course, they are many in number, — or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Stran 104 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired — justice. humanity...
Stran 70 - And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have strove, to hinder it.
Stran 94 - If you can find any person, anywhere, professing to have any proposition of Jefferson Davis in writing, for peace, embracing the restoration of the Union and abandonment of slavery, whatever else it embraces, say to him he may come to me with you...
Stran 85 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Stran 33 - while I approve the measure, I suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country supported by military success, instead of issuing it, as would be the case now, upon the greatest disasters of the war.
Stran 136 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Stran 58 - Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures, which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety.
Stran 58 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert...