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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 6 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], Meeting in Baltimore for the Benefit of Presbyterian ministers in the South. (search)
the admiration even of their enemies. Overwhelmed at first with amazement and grief, they soon recovered the natural composure and elasticity of their character, and, like a stout ship in a storm, bowed gracefully to the billows of adversity. Now almost buried in the dreary troughs of the sea, and losing sight of the sky, and anon ascending some tremendous wave, and catching a glimpse of a wide and clear horizon; but, whether sinking or rising, still afloat, buoyant and progressing. Tacitus, speaking of the Britons while subjected to the Romans, says: "They cheerfully complied with the levies of men, the imposition of tribute, and all the necessary demands of government, provided they received no illegal treatment or insults from their governors; for those they bore with impatience." The character of our ancestors sixteen hundred years ago has been transmitted to their descendants; and, animated by the conciliatory dispositions of the President and he quiet order of the milita