 | Jesse Truesdell Peck - United States - 1868 - 774 pages
...it. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, — honorable alike in what wegive and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly...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... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...generation. * * In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike to what we give and what •we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last hope of earth. Other means may succeed — this can not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous,... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - Kingdom of God - 1871 - 392 pages
...alone, but for all mankind. Said Mr. Lincoln in his annual message to Congress, December 1st, 1862 : "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth." Thus our highest official, in one of the most important of state papers, officially declared that we... | |
 | George Washington Julian - History - 1872 - 512 pages
...to the latest generation. In giving freedom to the -slave, we assure freedom to the free; honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful,'generous, just, — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...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...could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." From... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...three-fourths of the states." "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail." Comment is unnecessary. Before the war, the complaint of the South was that the Lincoln party wanted... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - History - 1875 - 394 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." In the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...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...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 forever... | |
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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. 
