From War to Peace: A Plea for a Definite Policy of Reconstruction |
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Page 3 - WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time.
Page 8 - Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity?
Page 2 - He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away.
Page 207 - It took Rome three hundred years to die ; and our death, if we perish, will be as much more terrific as our intelligence and free institutions have given to us more bone, and sinew, and vitality. May God hide me from the day, when the dying agonies of my country shall begin...
Page 15 - We teach in this way, simply because it is the traditional method — like the man who carried his grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other to balance it...
Page 228 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruits every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 270 - ... from the brain of Jove. If they are to have the useful feature of permanence they must be a growth so that the communities whose welfare they affect may grow accustomed to them as natural and so accept them.
Page 90 - Whatever is done we must do ourselves, and if we stand up like men from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf, we will strike terror to their cowardly hearts and they will be but too eager to relax their grip upon our throats and beat a swift retreat. We will watch every move they make and in the meantime prepare for action.
Page 69 - Lenders of money on farm lands have long since learned that it is not safe to lend on some of our farms even half their market price. They recognize the fact that on these highpriced lands such a loan, while not large enough to be unsafe in case of foreclosure, is so large that the payment of the interest is so heavy a load on the farmer that it tends to make foreclosure an unpleasant probability.
Page 96 - The methods of dealers in farm lands may as a rule be bad, but for all that they will under any conceivable circumstances settle ten families on the land where the governments, state and national, will settle one. They have the land...