The Two Civilizations: An OrationM. King, 1882 - 30 Seiten |
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19th of April abolition American Revolution ANTI-SLAVERY AUGUSTUS Banners BLISHER blood of Middlesex brave Cambridge Cemetery cherished Christian civilization citizens CIVILIZATIONS AN ORATION Comrade conflict Constitution contest dear DECORATION DAY defence disunion election of Abraham eral fears FINANCIAL CRISIS Forbes Albertype FOREIGN SLAVE-TRADE FOX THE MAYOR Freedom glorious glory Grand Army HARVARD SQUARE hearts Henry Wilson heroic heroism Honor human hundred institution INTRODUCTORY NOTE James JOHN BROWN labor land legislative branch Lexington Liberty and Union little band loyal Massachusetts Mayflower MAYOR FOX'S ORATION MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE Memorial Day Committee military necessity million MOSES KING national unity nominations non-resistant North Northern organization patriotic pled poet political parties political struggle Post 30 President Lincoln proclamation promptly prophetic rebel Rebellion regiment rightfully belonged sail Sarony secession Secessionists sentiment singu slaveholding slavery slaves South Southern statesman thee tramped Union Hall UNION SOLDIERS valor victory wealth Wendell Phillips
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Seite 18 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Seite 4 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Seite 23 - 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. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Seite 24 - Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Seite 5 - Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there ! THE PASSIONS.
Seite 18 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, Tis of the...
Seite 18 - T is of the wave and not the rock ; 'T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Seite 16 - Is it for the overthrow of the American Government, established by our common ancestry, cemented and built up by their sweat and blood, and founded on the broad principles of right, justice, and humanity...
Seite 17 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every American heart, LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE...
Seite 12 - We might, by arresting the further spread of it, and placing it where the fathers originally placed it, put it where the public mind should rest in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction.