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Pages : 92
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker, Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 9, 1861
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Pages : 92
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker, Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday, December 11, 1861
Author: Addresses on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker, Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, on Wednesday, December 11, 1861
Author: Addresses on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker,.
Author: United States. CongressA Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker
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Pages : 87
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker
Author: United States Th SessionPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230193502
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Pages : 26
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...the head of his column, while bravely, gallantly engaging the enemy at Ball's Bluff, in the State of Virginia, on the 21st of last October. His fellow officers and men bear honorable and gratifying testimony of his daring courage in that his first engagement during the present war. Such courage as he there displayed has commanded the universal admiration of all times; and so ennobling is this enthusiasm for the truly brave, that we can confess to be hero worshippers without being guilty of idolatry. In the personal history of the deceased, there is a lesson well calculated to inspire hope and stimulate ambition for worthy purposes in the youth of our coming generations. No pampered ease or "castle of indolence" was his by virtue of his birthright. The solemn but merciful decree passed upon "man's first disobedience"--that in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread--promised him no royal road to this world's honors. Yet there was no sinking of the heart, no relaxing of the muscles, nor paling of the cheek, when he went forth as a volunteer to the great and most merciless of all battle-fields--the world. Years rolled on, and manhood found him still in the field, but without promotion. At this period his mind must have been improved by refining and elevating studies, or some new impulse must have awakened an ambition that at no time previous seemed to have engaged his thoughts or influenced his actions; for thenceforth he evidently determined to seek glory by the mind, rather than by bodily strength. His repeated triumphs, and the many honors fairly won in his new field of labor, fully justified him in his high resolve. A youth when landing upon our shores, without friends, fortune, or even what is considered an education, before he...
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