 We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 171by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Ian Bellany - History - 2013 - 250 pages
...save Peace. The world knows that we do. We, even we here, hold the power and have the responsibility. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just - a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud.... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." And so, in the end, "we shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."9' On December 13, the war's "fiery trial" continued in the eastern theatre. Burnside was ready... | |
 | James Oakes - African American abolitionists - 2007 - 366 pages
...generation," the President said. "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth ."To that end Lincoln proposed a series of constitutional amendments that would resolve the legal uncertainties... | |
 | Frank Van der Linden - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Lincoln's appeal did not receive the attention it deserved. The members of Congress, back in Washington... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2007 - 176 pages
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...we do know how to savc it. We — even we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibilitv . . . Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a wav which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and ( lod must forever bless." Thus ended the-... | |
 | Michael Knox Beran - History - 2007 - 521 pages
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..." importance to the free than to the enslaved." He knew what depended on the issue and he said : " We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, " best hope of earth." IV. '"PHEN came a crisis in the North. It became •* clearer and clearer to Lincoln's mind, day by... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN CW V: 518-537 (518, 527-529, 537) We might summarize Lincoln's phrase "last best hope... | |
 | Organization of American Historians - United States - 2008 - 354 pages
...power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.8 The discussion of these documents centers on questions such as: 1. Why does Lincoln think the... | |
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