 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
 | Lew Wallace - Presidents - 1888 - 644 pages
...President thus explains this act : " 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. * * * The way is plain, peaceful, glorious, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever... | |
 | Lew Wallace - Presidents - 1888 - 646 pages
...nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. * * * The way is plain, peaceful, glorious, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless." In 1864, by a respectable majority in the popular vote and a large one in the electoral college, Mr.... | |
 | Lew Wallace, George Alfred Townsend - Presidents - 1888 - 664 pages
...the President thus explains this act: "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. * * * The way is plain, peaceful, glorious,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 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. A. LINCOLN. LETTER TO MR. WOOD, DECEMBER 12, 1862. My Dear Sir: — Your letter of the 8th, with the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 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. No immediate action followed this patriotic appeal. No indications of reviving unionism were manifested... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 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....Other means may succeed, this could not fail. The way AMua™' is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if fol- ID™a?J)' lowed, the world will... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 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....if followed, the world will forever applaud and God will forever bless." The final proclamation was issued January i, 1863, and was a document which will... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we as«ure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve....of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not, cannot fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1891 - 462 pages
...President thus explained this act : — " 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 Jast best hope of earth. . . . The way is plain, peaceful, glorious, just, — a way, which, if followed,... | |
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