 | 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
...will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. In giving freedom to the -slave, we assure freedom to the free; honorable alike in...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... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Civil rights - 1872 - 508 pages
...hope of earth. Other means 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 forever bless." RADICALISM AND CONSERVATISM — THE TRUTH OF HISTORY VINDICATED. IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE ON THE STATE... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...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...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." From his address at the consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1864 : "... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...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...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." From his address at the consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1864 : "... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...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 in what...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 - Indians of North America - 1875 - 408 pages
...message to Congress, the President thus explained this act : — " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in...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... | |
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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. 
