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		<title>Lincoln: To Eliza P. Gurney</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Correspondence &#160; After a year&#8217;s delay, Abraham Lincoln replies to a letter from Eliza P. Gurney written on the 18th of the Eighth Month, 1863, in which she had expressed her continuing sympathy and prayers for the President in his time of trial. If I had had my way, the war would have ended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11798&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.—John Dickinson.</media:title>
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		<title>Upon An Honest Man’s Fortune</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Upon An Honest Man’s Fortune. ————— YOU that can look through Heaven, and tell the stars, Observe their kind conjunctions, and their wars; Find out new lights, and give them where you please, To those men honours, pleasures, to those ease; You that are God’s surveyors, and can shew How far, and when, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11823&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Story: First Christmas in Ohio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekly Story &#160; &#160; During Christmas, 1750, Christopher Gist—an American with religious instruction by the Church of England and leader of the Ohio Company—enters a section of the Ohio River Valley claimed by the French. December 25, 1750. Christmas Day.—This, no doubt, was the first Protestant religious service ever held within the limits of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11776&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.—Proverbs 22:6</media:title>
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		<title>Laus Deo!—December 18, 1865</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Laus Deo! Upon hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. ————— IT is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11426&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams—What Was the Revolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Correspondence &#160; &#160; Following his presidency, John Adams—in a letter to Baltimore publisher, Hezikiah Niles—recalls the events surrounding the American Revolution. But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11737&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.—John Dickinson.</media:title>
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		<title>Samuel Adams to The Sons of Liberty—Repeal of the Stamp Act.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Correspondence &#160; In 1769—on the third anniversary of the repeal of the Stamp Act—Samuel Adams composes a letter to his fellow Sons of Liberty reminding them of the purposes of the act and that the struggle against Great Britian&#8217;s attempts to tax the colonies continues. Although the people of Great Britain be only fellow-subjects, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11708&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.—John Dickinson.</media:title>
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		<title>Lincoln: To The Kentuckians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Debate &#160; In September 1859, following a visit by Stephen Douglas, the Cincinnati Republicans invite Abraham Lincoln to respond. He does so by addressing the supporters of slavery. There is no such thing as a man who is a hired laborer, of a necessity, always remaining in his early condition. The general rule is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11681&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.—Dickenson.</media:title>
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		<title>November Eleventh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armistice Day, November 11, 1918. &#160; &#160; November Eleventh. ————— WE stood up and we didn’t say a word, It felt just like when you have dropped your pack After a hike, and straightened out your back And seem just twice as light as any bird. We stood up straight and, God! but it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11672&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerson: The Christian Teacher</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Thought &#160; &#160; On Sunday evening, July 15, 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers an address before the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge, in which he finds what he calls the Cultas—relying on established worship rather than on personal faith—faulty. It stirs controversy in religious circles. The question returns, What shall we do? I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11645&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.—Poor Richard Saunders.</media:title>
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		<title>Dane-Geld</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In 991, the English king, Æthelred, adopts a proposal by Edric, Duke of Mercia, to purchase peace with the Danes. The first year the Danes accepted 10,000 pounds of silver to retire with their plunder. In 994, they raised it to £16,000; in 1002, to £24,000; in 1007, to £36,000; in 1012, to £48,000; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticthinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9151446&amp;post=11589&amp;subd=democraticthinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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