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... Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 407by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 653 pages
...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, let cannot escape hisU>ry. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will...significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of as. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 216 pages
...plead for emancipation, how earnest and outspoken were his words! In his Annual Message he said, " We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 842 pages
...anew. We must diienthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal signifieance, or insignifieance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass,... | |
 | FRANK CROSBY - 1865
...anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. JSTo personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through... | |
 | William James Potter - Bible - 1865 - 67 pages
...rise with the occasion. * * We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. * * No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through whieli we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. * •» * ^Y^ —... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 720 pages
...earnest appeal for the system of compensated emancipation in these memorable words: " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 506 pages
...country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape /history. We, of this Congress and this Administratiori, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know haw to save the Union. The... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 720 pages
...earnest appeal for the system of compensated emancipation in these memorable words : " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial throagh which we pass, will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 508 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...be remembered in spite of» ourselves. No personal signifieance, or insignifieance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 239 pages
...his own insistence, Mr. Lincoln concluded with the following weighty words : — " Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and...administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honour or dishonour, to the latest... | |
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