Lessons of Encouragement from the Times of WashingtonA.D.F. Randolph, 1863 - 20 sider |
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15 cents 683 BROADWAY American cause ancestral and patriotic ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH Bible cannot fail bless carried the back Christian civil cling with delight connecting of memorable Constitution courage days and incidents dence Divine doctrine duty earth embodied and enjoined events that rendered exile only rendered Farewell Address fathers FEBRUARY 22 festivals and anniversaries fiery furnace forsake us."-1 KINGS fought and toiled found expres GEORGE L hold words human agency Jewish people cherished judgment justice justify the connecting justly King David leaders LESSONS OF ENCOURAGEMENT liberty MEMORIAM George Davidson ment moral nation ever existed National Government needed the sanction nullification Old Testament Patriarchs Perhaps no nation perjuries political posterity Providential race still cling religion to hold Republic Revolutionary righteous sanction of Scripture scattered and torn Scripture to justify secession speech struggle SUPREME ALLEGIANCE tion torn for nearly treason triumph Union University of California unto us."-1 KINGS viii WASHINGTON
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Side 3 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Side 15 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Side 14 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Side 14 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Side 3 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Side 16 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us : that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Side 14 - ... the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.
Side 12 - I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even should I see it fall, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with fidelity and zeal which nothing shall extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue.
Side 11 - Under the very peculiar Constitution of this Government, although the citizens owe supreme allegiance to the Federal Government, they owe also a qualified allegiance to the State in, which they are domiciled. Their persons and property are subject to its laws. Hence, in organizing this rebellion, they have acted as States claiming to be sovereign over all persons and property within their respective limits, and asserting a right to absolve their citizens from their allegiance...