 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1893 - 460 pages
...Thirty-seventh Congress, he said : " We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free. Other means may succeed; this could not, cannot fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just; a... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we, here — hold the power and bear the responsibility....save, or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." • LETTER TO CUTHBERT BULLITT NEW ORLEANS, JULY 27, 1862. ' " I shall not do more than I can, but... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - Abolitionists - 1894 - 944 pages
...we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility....give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanl_v lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility....freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, — honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility....freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, — honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility....giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free,—honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1894 - 346 pages
...greatest importance to the free than to the enslaved. He knew what depended on the issue, and he said: "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth." Then came a crisis in the North. It became clearer and clearer to Lincoln's mind, day by day, that... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - United States - 1894 - 188 pages
...fly to the standard of the law and would meet invasions of the public order as his own concern." (b) "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth." (c) " That which contributes most to preserve the State is to educate children with reference to the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 pages
...greater importance to the free than to the enslaved." He knew what depended on the issue and said: " We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth." Then came a crisis in the North. It became clearer and clearer to Lincoln's mind, day by day, that... | |
 | William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. . . . We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility....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... | |
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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. 
