#edward bates

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

Right thoughts, Right words, Right action

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[ansiklomedia]

Edward Bates Kimdir? Edward Bates; (d. 4 Eylül 1793, Goochland, Virginia – ö. 25 Mart 1869, St. Louis, Missouri, ABD), avukat ve Whig yanlısı siyaset adamıdır.

[generalharrison]

William Henry Smith on Harrison’s First Impactful Stump Speech at Lebanon, Indiana.

Mr. Harrison had the same sharp, rasping voice that became famous in after years, and with almost his first utterance he caused the crowd to pause. Some stopped a moment to look at the boyish figure as he stood on the stand, with his fingers in his trouser pockets.

Another sentence shot out, reaching to the very verge of the crowd and more of them paused to listen. They began to get back toward the stand, drop into their seats, or lean against some of the trees. Those who had got some distance away looked back and saw the deserted seats being filled up, and they, too, came back.

W. H. Smith, “Personal Recollections,” Benjamin Harrison Scrapbook, Vol. 52, p. 102, Harrison MSS.

Caleb Blood Smith, later Sec. of Interior under Lincoln, had been the first speaker. His speech was full of references to William Henry Harrison, and was meant to hype Tippecanoe’s young grandson. Nevertheless, Ben had to win his audience, and won them. Harrison laid out in no uncertain terms that the slavery must not be extended, and Lincoln must be elected president. This was in more than a month before Lincoln secured the 1860 Republican nomination.

Harrison supported Lincoln in opposition to his party, which in Indiana supported Edward Bates of Missouri.

[therearenodonutsindeath]

Nonetheless, these few moments of pleasure could not compensate for missing the birth of his first daughter, Nancy. "As yet I only know that she is," he lamented, "I long to know how she is--what she is--who she is like...whether she has black eyes or gray--a long nose or a pug--a wide mouth or a narrow one--and above all, whether she has a pretty foot," for without a pretty foot, like her mother's, he predicated, she could never make "a fine woman."

Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Team of Rivals", pages 64-65

[fuckyeahhistorycrushes]

Edward Bates: Lawyer, abolitionist, father of 17, Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln, bad ass dapper mother fucker.

[maryandleo]

I believe the force is not strictly either 'State troops' or 'United States troops.' It is of mixed character. I therefore think it is safer, when a practical question arises, to decide that question directly, and not indirectly by deciding a general abstraction supposed to include it, and also including a great deal more.

Abraham Lincoln to Attorney-General Edward Bates, November 29, 1862