 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...must think and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. We cannot escape history. We, of this Congress, and this administration,...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,... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...and the patriots of our own time, worthy of the respect of the world.* * "Fellow-citizens, 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.... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 pages
...rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens,...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us clown, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, vu cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We lay we aie for the Union. The wor d will not. forget that we say this. We know how to gave the Union.... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...session. The following is an extract from the closing part of his message : "Fellow-citizens — We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance pr insignificance can spare one or the other of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save the country. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We, even here, hold the power and bear the responsibility." What an earnestness in these stirring words;... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...efforts. " We cannot," says he, " escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. * * * * The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."9 In the midst of the war, we pause to give a history of this thirteenth, and far most... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1888 - 526 pages
...anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress, and this administration...are for the Union. The world will not forget that we know how to save it. We— even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. NC' person.nl significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...could be free. Closing Paragraph of Message to Congress, December i, 1862. SELLOW-CITIZENS, 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.... | |
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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... 
