Portry Reflections on Mercy and Humility in Divine Love
A reflective verse piece contrasts human pride with mercy and gratitude. It laments the lordly race for neglecting God despite blessings such as health sleep and wealth, urging reverence and acknowledgment of the divine source. It extols nature and simple comforts as proof of benevolence and questions worldly ambition.
Address on Fort Sumter and the Union crisis
President declares the nation faced a decisive choice as Southern states seized federal forts and formed the Confederate States. He explains greenlighted defense policy, Sumter’s fall, and the stakes for the republic, urging unity and the preservation of the constitutional Union against domestic rebellion.
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Fort Sumter
Federal Army
Confederate States
Anderson
War Department
Scott
Army
Navy
Friends of the Union
Fort Pickens
Brooklyn
Sumter
South Carolina
United States
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Bratituda
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Mercy
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Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
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