 I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision; but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4901869Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent the...of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every dime. It is well known that President Lincoln declared this passage to be one of the finest efforts... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...Atlantic to the calmer waters of the Pacific main, and I see one people and one law and one language and one faith, and over all that wide continent the...freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race. From The Saturday Review. THE WAVKRLEY NOVELS.» THE Waverley novels are at length fairly committed... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...calmer waters of the Pacific main — and I see one people, and one law, and/me language, and one faith, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom,...for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. CHARLES DICKENS. Born 1812. [THE name of Charles Dickens is not perhaps often associated with oratory.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...Pacific main ; and we see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all this wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race." Tho District of Columbia, in which is located the Capitol of the nation, has become free territory... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 642 pages
...westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent the...of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every clime. It is well known that President Lincoln declared this passage to be one of the finest efforts... | |
 | John Bright - 1868 - 906 pages
...but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of...for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. v_ VOL. I. AMERICA. ill. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. ROCHDALE, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. [This speech was delivered... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of...for the oppressed of every race and of every clime." — (VoL i. pp. 224-5.) We have quoted these passages — and no reader, we are persuaded, will blame... | |
 | John Bright - Great Britain - 1868 - 566 pages
...but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of...for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. VOL. I. AMERICA, in. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. ROCHDALE, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. 'Id-, speech was delivered... | |
 | England - 1869 - 824 pages
...people, where do you look for them in the constituencies? Do you go to the top or to the bottom ? " But there was a still sharper trial in store for Mr...despotism. As courtiers and flatterers are worse than despota themselves, so those who flatter and fawn upon the people are generally very inferior to the... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...frozen north to the glowing south, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to thu ca'mer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people,...clime." Mr. Lowe, on the other hand, persisted in afributing the corruption of public life in America to its political institutions: — " It is an old... | |
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