 | Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1868 - 1434 pages
...high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, [1861-62. LII.] Q so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we ahall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we caunot escape history. "We, of this Congress., and this... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...no room for details or large quotation ; its closing paragraph was as follows : " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will ba remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1862 - 990 pages
...occasion. As our case is new, so we zust think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and ien we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress :.nd this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 758 pages
...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall...and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, wt cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
 | Alfred C. Thomas - United States - 1863 - 36 pages
...rise with the occasion. As our case is so new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history; we of this Congress will be remembered in spite of ourselves; no personal significance or insignificance can spare one... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall...and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, wt cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
 | Abott A. Abott - 1864 - 104 pages
...from the original, or we should have wished to italicise these lines. " Above al, fellow citizens, we cannot escape history, We of this Congress, and...Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves." What sincerity and truthfulness of m'.nd shines all through these sentences ! " The fiery trial through... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 680 pages
...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we muet rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall...and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, to« cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case-is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall...and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, u>« cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... 
