A Pathfinder in American History for the Use of Teachers, Normal Schools, and More Mature Pupils in Grammar Grades, Делови 1-2

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Страница 227 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Страница 191 - It is therefore ordered, that for every soldier of the United States killed in violation of the laws of war a rebel soldier shall be executed ; and for every one enslaved by the enemy, or sold into slavery, a rebel soldier shall be placed at hard labor on the public works and continued at such labor until the other shall be released and receive the treatment due to a prisoner of war.
Страница 17 - Behold the fowls of the air ; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns : yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Страница 225 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Страница 18 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Страница 225 - Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Страница 225 - We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.
Страница 225 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Страница 226 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

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