Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr Kingwas an American Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and Freemason. Starr King spoke zealously in favor of the Union and was credited by Abraham Lincoln with preventing California from becoming a separate republic. He is sometimes referred to as "the orator who saved the nation."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth17 December 1824
CountryUnited States of America
history known worth year
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
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The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.
california came cotton northern
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.