 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to \hzfree — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve....save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...n we htre — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the »lave we amure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. Wo shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other шеапэ may succeed ; this... | |
 | H.J. Ramsdell - 1884 - 696 pages
...forever done away with in the United States. In his message to Congress, the President thus explains this act: "In giving freedom to the slave we assure...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,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. in giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the/r« — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve....save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed, this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1134 pages
...knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this, could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, jast — a way... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility. " In giving Freedom to the Slave, we assure Freedom...save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of Earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just— a way which,... | |
 | Frederick Thomas Jones - United States - 1888 - 330 pages
...freedom." The President expounds the meaning of this proclamation in the following Message to Congress: " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...just — a way which, if followed, the world will forevei' applaud, and God must forever bless." The slaves having been decided (Dred Scott's case) to... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1888 - 526 pages
...forget that we know how to save it. We— even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this conld not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way... | |
 | Lew Wallace, George Alfred Townsend - Presidents - 1888 - 664 pages
...forever done away with in the United States. In his message to Congress, the President thus explains this act: "In giving freedom to the slave we assure...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,... | |
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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. 
