The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 páginas |
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... ship of State can never be safely steered by slaves to precedent . In every country possessing a written constitution , there must be besides , an historic or providential consti- tution , and nothing can be more certain than that the ...
... ship of State can never be safely steered by slaves to precedent . In every country possessing a written constitution , there must be besides , an historic or providential consti- tution , and nothing can be more certain than that the ...
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... ship was coming in , did not more truly embody an original idea , than do our institutions . Like that watchman , most of those abroad who , five years ago , had their gaze for the first time fixed upon us by the breaking out of the ...
... ship was coming in , did not more truly embody an original idea , than do our institutions . Like that watchman , most of those abroad who , five years ago , had their gaze for the first time fixed upon us by the breaking out of the ...
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... ship of the Republic safe in port , or is she still tossed on the open sea ? Let us not disguise the diffi- culties of the hour . We have still a great work to do , a work , in some respects , the most complex and diffi- cult ever ...
... ship of the Republic safe in port , or is she still tossed on the open sea ? Let us not disguise the diffi- culties of the hour . We have still a great work to do , a work , in some respects , the most complex and diffi- cult ever ...
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... ship , illuminating only the path that has been passed , but shedding no radi- ance to pierce the palpable darkness of the future ; but , to one who believes in a Divine Providence , that watches over the destinies of nations as of ...
... ship , illuminating only the path that has been passed , but shedding no radi- ance to pierce the palpable darkness of the future ; but , to one who believes in a Divine Providence , that watches over the destinies of nations as of ...
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... " Proclaim LIB- ERTY throughout the land , to ALL the inhabitants thereof . " It was in the same year that the " Mayflower " landed at Plymouth that the first slave - ship touched at Jamestown . For two hundred and forty years the 13.
... " Proclaim LIB- ERTY throughout the land , to ALL the inhabitants thereof . " It was in the same year that the " Mayflower " landed at Plymouth that the first slave - ship touched at Jamestown . For two hundred and forty years the 13.
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Página 29 - 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!
Página 5 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 2 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 28 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Página 6 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 9 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 29 - 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...