Our Departed President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, April 19th, 1865 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Our Departed President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, April 19th, 1865

But God has interposed. In the contest for the preserva tion of our national integrity, he has wrought out a result, conducting us to it through a baptism of blood, which an ewers the pi ayer that has ascended from millions of agonized hearts, and that proclaims a time Of jubilee to the negroes of the South. We are soon to be relieved of this terrible incubus. The heart of the nation is free from this fearful nightmare, which God has helped her to throw from her laboring breast, and that part of our constitution so long a falsehood and a farce has become a glorious reality. We can now truthfully affirm that the clause in it, which for more than half a century we ignored in our public administrations, is part and parcel of our national life. Declaring and vindi cating by our practice, that we hold life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as man's inalienable right, Abraham Lincoln has been the instrument in bringing it about. But for him that amendment to our constitution, soon to be rati fied-by the required majority of the states, might never have been submitted to the people. Generations yet unborn will bless him for his agency in its accomplishment and if there was nothing else to embalm his worth and virtues in the re membranes of a grateful posterity, this alone would be suf ficient.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.