 | Edmund Alexander De Schweinitz - 1868 - 36 pages
..." that the nation should, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not perish from the earth." This was the call which stirred the hearts of millions, this was the solemn obligation ofthe hour.... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...battle-fields gave their lives " that the nation might live," and " that governments of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not perish from the earth." In the language of one of these Presidents : " It is not in a splendid government supported by aristocratic... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 580 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, in his marvellous utter-' ance at Gettysburg, was, that " government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from the earth." But who will venture to exclude from the " people " millions of citizens ? If governments in the Rebel... | |
 | United States. Army. Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) - United States - 1876 - 416 pages
...lives that the Republic might live ; they gave their all and more, that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from the earth. It is your duty to see that not a stone is taken from the fabric which was cemented with their precious... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1885 - 526 pages
...than two millions of men had left the peaceful pursuits of life that this " government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from the earth." Camps and recruiting stations were established in our city ; the strains of martial music were daily... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1885 - 546 pages
...than two millions of men had left the peaceful pursuits of life that this " government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from the earth." Camps and recruiting stations were established in our city ; the strains of martial music were daily... | |
 | David Craft - Pennsylvania - 1885 - 328 pages
...much in its effort " to give to this nation a new birth of freedom, that the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not perish from the earth," deserves at the hands of the persons who undertake to write its history, patience and fidelity in bringing... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 638 pages
...privations, and the sorrows of " those who bore the burden of the battle," that "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not perish from the earth." SEXTON BROWN AND NATHANIEL P. BANKS. Sunday, during the war, the late Sexton Brown of Grace Church,... | |
 | J. Howard Wert - Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) - 1886 - 246 pages
...the nation should, under God, "Have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not perish from the earth." About eight miles of drive-ways have already been opened, along the lines of battle, by the Battle-field... | |
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Government of the people, by the people and for the people, should not perish from the earth... 
