 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.  Discovery of America - Page 53by Jacob Abbott - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...first, two-thirds of Congress, and afterwards, three-fourths of the states." "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free honorable alike...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 - 424 pages
...In his message to Congress, the President thus explained this act : — " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike...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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - History - 1875 - 394 pages
...nobly 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 applaud, and God must forever bless." Almost at the same time with this proclamation, the policy of raising colored troops began to be systematically... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...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 P. Chase, distinguished for his able management... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...to save it. We—even we here—hold the power and bear the responsibility! In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike...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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - America - 1877 - 396 pages
...freedom." In his message to Congress, the President thus explained this act : — "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike...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... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...save, or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not, cannot fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just —...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. Dec. 1st, 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. CONTENTS OF APPENDIX. 1. Changes in Europe and elsewhere since the... | |
 | Charles Hatch Smith - American poetry - 1880 - 92 pages
...yEtna, are but faint types of his doom." NOTE XVII. PART THIRD, VS. XI. a. In giving freedom to the Slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. — Second Ann' I Message of Abraham Lincoln. b. The close of the late Rebellion was the "intellectual... | |
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