Identifier: greatdebatesinam04unit (find matches)
Title: Great debates in American history : from the debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Congress Great Britain. Parliament Miller, Marion Mills, 1864-1949
Subjects: Slavery Civil rights Finance Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Publisher: New York : Current Literature Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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(?y 1^ ^ THE OMNIBUS BILL 205 profoundest depths. I do not expect, Mr. President, to hold, orto be fit to hold, the helm in this combat of the political ele-ments ; but I have a duty to perform, and I mean to perform itwith fidelity—not without a sense of the surrounding dangers,but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own se-curity or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment uponwhich to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, butfor the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole;and there is that which will keep me to my duty during thisstruggle, whether the sun and the stars shall appear or shall notappear for many days. I speak to-day for the preservation ofthe Union. Hear me for my cause. I speak to-day, out of asolicitous and anxious heart, for the restoration to the countryof that quiet and that harmony which make the blessings of thisUnion so rich and so dear to us all. These are the topics thatI propose to myself to discuss; these are

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