1865

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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Reconstruction American Civil War American politics

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!

John Wilkes Booth

"Thus always to tyrants" in Latin. Shouted immediately before assassinating Abraham Lincoln.

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American Civil War

Speaker

John Wilkes Booth

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Booth, John Wilkes. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 14 Apr. 1865, Ford's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

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Helping others

Speaker

The Secretary

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Our Mutual Friend

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1865, pt. 13, bk. 3, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 9.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Slavery American Civil War American politics

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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American Civil War God's will Slavery American politics God and America

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

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Raising kids Parents and children Power of education Value of education

Author

William Ross Wallace

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wallace, William Ross. What Rules the World. 1865.

Current Citation

Wallace, William Ross. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle." Poetry for a Lifetime: All-Time Favorite Poems to Delight and Inspire All Ages, edited by Samuel Norfleet Etheredge. MiraVista Press, 1999.

The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said: for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved.

Frederick Douglass

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Topic

Oppressor and oppressed

Speaker

Frederick Douglass

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. “What the Black Man Wants.” Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. 26 Jan. 1865, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass. Dover Publications, 2013.

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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American Civil War Slavery American politics God and America

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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American Civil War American politics

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Abraham Lincoln

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.

John Stuart Mill

Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

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Topic

Goodness of God Nature of God God

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical writing

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. An Examination of Sir. William Hamilton's Philosophy. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2009, ch. 7.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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Topic

Thirteenth Amendment Civil Rights Amendments Bill of Rights

Source

Constitution of the United States

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Constitution of the United States. Amend. 13, sect. 1.

England is the mother of parliaments.

John Bright

Speech in Birmingham, January 18, 1865

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England Government

Speaker

John Bright

Source

Speech in Birmingham, January 18, 1865

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bright, John. Speech in Birmingham. 18 Jan. 1865, Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.

Walt Whitman

O Captain! My Captain!

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Abraham Lincoln American Civil War

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

O Captain! My Captain!

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. "My Captain." The Saturday Press, 4 Nov. 1865.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, I. 1.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Topic

The mysterious

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 2.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

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Moral principles Moral absolutism

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Last Public Address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Last Public Address." 11 Apr. 1865, White House, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Begin at the beginning...and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 12.

The war is over-the rebels are our countrymen again.

Ulysses S. Grant

Preventing his men from cheering after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

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Topic

American Civil War Political reconciliation American politics

Speaker

Ulysses S. Grant

Medium

Speech

Genre

War speech

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grant, Ulysses S. Preventing his men from cheering after Lee's surrender. 9 Apr. 1865, Appomattox Court House, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA.

Current Citation

Grant, Ulysses S. Quoted in "Civil War: A Narrative." Written by Shelby Foote. Vol. 3, Modern Library, 2011.

He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water.

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

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Topic

Stupidity

Speaker

Fanny Cleaver

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Our Mutual Friend

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Insult Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1865, pt. 13, bk. 3, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 10.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Robert E. Lee

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Topic

American Civil War North vs. south American politics

Speaker

Robert E. Lee

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lee, Robert E. Spoken to a friend who condemned the North at the end of the war. c. 1865.

Current Citation

Lee, Robert E. Quoted in The Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, ch. 5.

Will you, wo'n't you, will you, wo'n't you, will you join the dance?

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 10.