Tag: Abe Lincoln
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“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection . . .
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and the patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The fiery trial through which we pass, will […]
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“I have already given two brothers to the war and stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.”
Artemus Ward 19th Century Comedian “The Shakers is the strangest religious sex I ever met. I’d hearn tell of ’em and I’d seen ’em, with their broad brim’d hats and long wastid coats; but I’d never cum into immejit contack with ’em, and I’d sot ’em down as lackin intelleck, as I’d never seen ’em […]
Author Adrienne Morris 