 | 1907 - 544 pages
...TO HIS FRIEND ELKINS IN ILLINOIS IN 1804. (George Shlbley's Book on The Money Question.] Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing...its close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and bloodThe best blood of the flower of the American youth has been free. ly offered upon oar country's... | |
 | David Waddle McClung - 1892 - 334 pages
...vision breakers ahead. He said, "We may all congratulate ourselves that the cruel war is nearing a close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. The best blood of American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might live. It has... | |
 | George Henry Shibley - 1896 - 722 pages
...consideration."* President Lincoln in a letter to his friend Elkins in Illinois in 1864 said: Lincoln's Prophecy. "Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves that this...treasure and blood. The best blood of the flower of the American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might live. It... | |
 | Lyman E. Stowe - 1896 - 414 pages
...over he would turn his attention to other and more dangerous enemies of the country. LINCOLN'S LETTER "Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing to a close. It has cost a. vast amount of treasure and blood. The best blood of the Ilower of American... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 pages
...a lawyer. Yours truly. A. Lincoln, President. (November 21, 1864, Wm. F. Elkln— Shibley, p. 282.) Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves that this cruel...vast amount of treasure and blood. The best blood of 185 the flower of American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1932 - 90 pages
...Illinois, President Lincoln said : Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves thut this cruel war is near the close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood, the best blood of the flower of American manhood has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the Nation might live. It has been indeed... | |
 | 1899 - 760 pages
...TO HIS FRIEND ELKINS IN ILLINOIS IN 1861. [George Shibley's book on The Money Question.] Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing...treasure and blood. The best blood of the flower of the American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might live. It... | |
 | 1907 - 538 pages
...TO HIS FRIEND ELKINS IN ILLINOIS IN 1864. [George Shlbley's Book on The Money Question.] Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing...its close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and bloodThe best blood of the flower of the American youth has been free. ly offered upon our country's... | |
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American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might live. It has been indeed a trying hour for the republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of... 