 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...: " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will ba remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1862 - 990 pages
...remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another .-si us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in Lonor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...on its decision of this one point. " Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that while we say this we do know how to save... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...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 and...honor or dishonor to. the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, wt cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We tay we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - United States - 1864 - 472 pages
...the United States at the close * " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. " We, of this Congress, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. "No personal...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. " We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that while we say this, we do know how to save... | |
 | Abott A. Abott - 1864 - 104 pages
...spite of ourselves." What sincerity and truthfulness of m'.nd shines all through these sentences ! " The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. ' Can the lips which uttered these words be those of an obscene joker, the character with which he... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 880 pages
...annals of our country and the history of the world. 'The fiery trials through which we are passing will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.' If we cannot ' escape history,' let us make our record right, and display that patriotism, wisdom,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 864 pages
...anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world Tvill not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light... 
