 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every dime. It is well known that President Lincoln declared this passage to be one of the finest efforts... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...calmer waters of the Pacific main, and I see one people and one law and one language and one faith, and over all that wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race. From The Saturday Review. THE WAVKRLEY NOVELS.» THE Waverley novels are at length fairly committed... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...calmer waters of the Pacific main — and I see one people, and one law, and/me language, and one faith, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. CHARLES DICKENS. Born 1812. [THE name of Charles Dickens is not perhaps often associated... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...Pacific main ; and we see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all this wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race." Tho District of Columbia, in which is located the Capitol of the nation, has become free territory... | |
 | John Bright - Confederate States of America - 1865 - 310 pages
...waters of the Pacific main, — and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. (The honorable gentleman resumed his seat amid an enthusiastic burst of cheering-)... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 642 pages
...calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every clime. It is well known that President Lincoln declared this passage to be one of the finest efforts... | |
 | John Bright - 1868 - 906 pages
...waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. v_ VOL. I. AMERICA. ill. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. ROCHDALE, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. [This speech... | |
 | John Bright - Great Britain - 1868 - 566 pages
...waters of the Pacific main, — and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. VOL. I. AMERICA, in. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. ROCHDALE, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. 'Id-, speech... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...waters of the Pacific main, — and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime." — (VoL i. pp. 224-5.) We have quoted these passages — and no reader, we are persuaded,... | |
 | England - 1869 - 796 pages
...calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and over all that wide continent the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime." Mr Lowe, on the other hand, persisted in attributing the corruption of public life... | |
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I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and... 
