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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayne, Robert young -1839 (search)
ness, he loads his conscience with the blackest crimes, he brings the guilt of blood upon his soul, and in the sight of God and his law he is a murderer. One more quotation, sir, and I shall have done. A reverend doctor of divinity, the pastor of a church at Byfield, Mass., on April 7, 1814, thus addressed his flock (page 321): The Israelites became weary of yielding the fruit of their labor to pamper their splendid tyrants. They left their political woes. They separated. Where is our Moses? Where the rod of his miracles? Where is our Aaron? Alas! no voice from the burning bush has directed them here. We must trample on the mandates of despotism, or remain slaves forever (page 322). You must drag the chains of Virginia despotism, unless you discover some other mode of escape. Those Western States which have been violent in this abominable war, those States which have thirsted for blood, God has given them blood to drink (page 323). Mr. President, I can go no further. The
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Robert Green 1833- (search)
he Presidential campaigns of 1876 and 1880, and had it not been for his Robert Green Ingersoll. pronounced agnostic views he would have been honored with high official preferment. In 1882 he settled in New York City, and engaged in law practice till his death, July 21, 1899. He was a man of rare personal attractions; an orator of exceptional brilliancy. His generosity was unbounded. Among his lectures, which had gained him wide popularity, the most characteristic were: Some mistakes of Moses; The family; The liberty of man, woman, and child; The Gods; and Ghosts. His publications included: Lectures complete; and Great speeches. Thomas Paine.—The following is Colonel Ingersoll's noted review of the life and works of Thomas Paine (q. v.): Eighty-three years ago Thomas Paine ceased to defend himself. The moment he became dumb all his enemies found a tongue. He was attacked on every hand. The Tories of England had been waiting for their revenge. The believers in kings,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
kinds, are cloaked by a fantastic claim of equality. If the slave States cannot enjoy what, in mockery of the great fathers of the republic, he misnames equality under the Constitution—in other words, the full power in the national Territories to compel fellow-men to unpaid toil, to separate husband and wife, and to sell little children at the auction block—then, sir, the chivalric Senator will conduct the State of South Carolina out of the Union! Heroic knight! Exalted Senator! A second Moses come for a second exodus! But not content with this poor menace, which we have been twice told was measured, the Senator, in the unrestrained chivalry of his nature, has undertaken to apply opprobrious words to those who differ from him on this floor. He calls them sectional and fanatical ; and opposition to the usurpation in Kansas he denounces as an uncalculating fanaticism. To be sure, these charges lack all grace of originality, and all sentiment of truth; but the adventurous Senato
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de 1757- (search)
Revolution, and in the forms of policy which we have adopted for the establishment and perpetuation of our freedom, Lafayette found the most perfect form of government. He wished to add nothing to it. He would gladly have abstracted nothing from it. Instead of the imaginary republic of Plato, or the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, he took a practical existing model, in actual operation here, and never attempted or wished more than to apply it faithfully to his own country. It was not given to Moses to enter the promised land: but he saw it from the summit of Pisgah. It was not given to Lafayette to witness the consummation of his wishes in the establishment of a republic, and the extinction of all hereditary rule in France. His principles were in advance of the age and hemisphere in which he lived. A Bourbon still reigns on the throne of France, and it is not for us to scrutinize the title by which he reigns. The principles of elective and hereditary power, blended in reluctant uni