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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
hat State were comparatively pure, and when the public theatre was occupied by personages of lofty moral port and commanding intellectual stature. There were statesmen in that day; man who comprehended justice, truth, and honor; who had convictions and principles, and who acted upon them; who loved their country, and were no place hunters. They were men to whom their State, after she had given them the highest offices in her gift, was infinitely more indebted than they to her. Such was DeWitt Clinton, who made New York an empire. It was the ambition of men in those days to make a country, not to be made by it. Such was not the aim of Wm. H. Seward. His has been not only the grovelling last of the demagogue for selfish elevation, but a Satanic determination to unmake his country if necessary to the making of himself. He deliberately chose the demoralization and disorganization of society as the means of elevating himself, until he at last succeeded in undoing the work of Washington