AD 1800 to 1900

Gospel in Brief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiBthW4TJEM&feature=watch-vrec
http://librivox.org/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you-by-leo-tolstoy/

abolitionist  William Lloyd Garrison 

He then proceeded to deliver a warning: "As widely as this incendiary spirit has spread," he said of the abolitionist crusade, "it has not yet infected this [federal government]...but unless it be speedily stopped, it will spread and work upwards till it brings the two great sections of the Union into deadly conflict."

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world.  It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner.  Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise.  Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”      ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

The subject of my remarks this evening will be Abraham Lincoln, Freemason. It may be regarded as somewhat pre- sumptuous to give this address this title, when Lincoln is not considered as one of the Masonic Presidents of the United States, and while ''Abraham Lincoln and Freemasonry" might be deemed by some as a preferable title, Abraham Lincoln, Free- mason, is nevertheless the subject.

German parliament 1879
The success of the united states in material development is the most illustrious of modern time. The American nation has no only born and suppressed the most gigantic and expensive war of all history but immediately after disbanded its army found employment for all its soldiers and marines , paid off its debt given labor and homes to all of the unemployed in Europe as fast as the could arrive in its territory and still by a system of taxation so indirect as to not be perceived much less felt. Because it is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws I urge that Germany has reached that point where it is necessary to imitate the tariff system of the united states (Tarrifs )