Lincoln's Birthday Hearing...: On H.R. 2310, a Bill to Declare Lincoln's Birthday a Legal Holiday... July 20, 1921 |
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2310 to declare 8th instant Abraham Lincoln acknowledge receipt admiration American believe bill declaring Lincoln's bill to declare birthday a legal birthday of Abraham BLANTON CHAIRMAN character Civil copy of H. R. copy of House D. C. EXECUTIVE OFFICE D. C. MY DEAR DEAR CONGRESSMAN DEAR SIR declare Lincoln's birthday desire District of Columbia EXECUTIVE CHAMBER EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT father February 12 Federal feeling follows gentleman Government Governor Grand Army House of Representatives inclosing copy instance ISAAC SIEGEL John June 13 June 8 inclosing June 9 knew legal holiday letter of June Lincoln Memorial Lincoln's birthday anniversary loved Macon County Massachusetts Missouri Compromise Nation nobleness was written number of holidays number of legal Orison Swett Marden OYSTER passion patriotism perhaps postpone President Republic Secretary Sincerely South SPROUL Theodore Roosevelt thing thought to-day truly UNDERHILL Union United vote Washington and Lincoln White House words York
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Página 18 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now" I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse.
Página 19 - I was elected a captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
Página 16 - I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Página 20 - Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare, Gentle and merciful and just ! Who, in the fear of God, didst bear The sword of power, a nation's trust ! In sorrow by thy bier we stand, Amid the awe that hushes all, And speak the anguish of a land That shook with horror at thy fall. Thy task is done ; the bond are free : We bear thee to an honoured grave, Whose proudest monument shall be The broken fetters of the slave.
Página 19 - ... to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.
Página 17 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Página 13 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
Página 15 - Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Página 19 - Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest.
Página 12 - ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, Are all but ministers of LOVE, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.