 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...The dogmas of the quiet past," he said, " are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion....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... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1861 - 178 pages
...thoughtful words. " 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 so new, we must think anew ami 15 act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our... | |
 | United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) - Presidents - 1862 - 986 pages
...better?" 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 most think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1862 - 990 pages
...the quiet past, are inade-i ,u,ite to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with diffi.ulty, and we must rise with the 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 758 pages
...do better?" 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....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... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulties, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ouselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow - citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
 | Alfred C. Thomas - United States - 1863 - 36 pages
...thoughtful words: "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 so new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...do better?" 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....new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
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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... 
