 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of ns. The tiory trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world 'vill not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...emancipation, how earnest and outspoken were his words ! In his Annual Message he said, " We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this 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... | |
 | William James Potter - 1865 - 78 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^ —... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...the closing paragraph of the message : "Fellow citizens," — thus reads the passage — "We cannot escape history. We of this Congress, and this Administration,...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...for the system of compensated emancipation in these memorable words : " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...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 - History - 1866 - 774 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...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 - 264 pages
...insistence, Mr. Lincoln concluded with the following weighty words : — " Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and this 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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...emancipation, how earnest and outspoken were his words ! In his Annual Message he said, " We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this 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... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens,...down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. * * In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike to what we give... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Civil rights - 1872 - 508 pages
...language of our patriotic Chief Magistrate, that " We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and of this administration will be remembered in spite of...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ; honorable alike in what we give and... | |
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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... 
