Sermons on Recent National Victories and National Sorrow: Preached, April 23d, 1865, in the Plymouth Church, by the Pastor E. P. Powell (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sermons on Recent National Victories and National Sorrow: Preached, April 23d, 1865, in the Plymouth Church, by the Pastor E. P. Powell

Convention passed by Seward, in their choice for President. Old men who loved his greatness and gloried in his strength, sat down like children and wept.

They looked to Attorney General Bates. In him some saw the model gentleman, who by a wise conservatism, reserved dignity, and soundness of judgment would be just the man to combine conflicting elements. He was to be the oil on the waters of threatened secession. But they passed by Bates.

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