 I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way ; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for...  Lincoln and Herndon - Page 236by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 502 pages
...on the great and durable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." l To another correspondent he replied: "The fight... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 312 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten, I believe...for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone. Prior to the time of the great debate no public man had taken the strong middle ground upon the slavery... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 314 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten, I believe...for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone. Prior to the time of the great debate no public man had taken the strong middle ground upon the slavery... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." During the following winter, he prepared a lecture on "Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements."... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - 1918 - 492 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age which I would have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten. I believe...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." ISAAC N. ARNOLD'S DESCRIPTION AND ESTIMATE The following quotation is made from a paper read by Hon.... | |
 | Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 pages
...hearing on the great and durable questions of the age which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten, I believe...have made some marks which will tell for the cause of liberty long after I am gone." In a letter to Henry Asbury in 1858 he said: "... The fight must go... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau - United States - 1919 - 728 pages
...gave me a hearing on the great question of the age, which I could have had in no other way. Though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." John Brown's Raid. In October, 1859, an event known as John Brown's Raid helped to widen the breach... | |
 | Louis Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 422 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten, I believe...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." He apparently had no thought of the presidency, though the idea was in the minds of his Illinois friends.... | |
 | Edgar Lee Masters - Fiction - 1922 - 486 pages
...on the great and durable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way ; and though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten I believe...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." The cause of civil liberty ! Had not Douglas stood for this too ? He had won against the terrific opposition... | |
 | Freeport. Chamber of commerce. Citizens committee - Freeport (Ill.) - 1922 - 56 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...have made some marks which will tell for the cause of the civil liberty long after I am gone." Rhodes, Volume II, page 343, says of the victory of Douglas... | |
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