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Page 178 - GOD, GIVE US MEN) Josiah Gilbert Holland God, give us Men ! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking; For while the rabble,...
Page 111 - Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Page 123 - Resolved, That a sum not exceeding two millions of Spanish milled dollars be emitted by the Congress in bills of credit, for the defence of America. Resolved, That the twelve confederated colonies be pledged for the redemption of the bills of credit, now directed to be emitted.
Page 147 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights ; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the Old World, and free laborers from our own States, and convert it. into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Page 32 - It is well known by all my brothers present, that my forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit ; from thence he extended his lines to the...
Page 32 - I have now informed you of the boundaries of the Miami nation, where the Great Spirit placed my forefather a long time ago and charged him not to sell or part with his lands, but to preserve them for his posterity.
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Page 115 - French possessed a fort; we have never heard of it."3 Whatever the historical validity of the opposing contentions the immediate decision of the controversy was made on other grounds. The red leader was compelled to bow before the power of Wayne's grim legion, and accordingly one clause of the treaty as finally drafted conveyed to the whites a tract of land six miles square at the mouth of the Chicago Eiver "where a fort formerly stood."4 But over the conclusions of the student Wayne's legion has...
Page 31 - And the said Indian tribes will allow to the people of the United States a free passage by land and by water, as one and the other shall be found convenient, through their country...
Page 184 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence— the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.