A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . .
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Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold wheat into the ground and lo a mystery.Edward Everett
The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.
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In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.
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God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
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In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.
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And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
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