...and well done than at Antietam, Murfreesboro', Gettysburg, and on many fields of lesser note. . . . Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. . . . Still, let us not be oversanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober, 163 let us...

...to the principles of that kingdom. In the wise words of our late President, let us hope that peace "will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful...

...the aid of black soldiers." And in the same letter is the following graphic and thrilling statement: "Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. . . . And then there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched...

...the aid of black soldiers." And in the same letter is the following graphic and thrilling statement: "Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. . . . And then there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched...

...I did not begin it. Once begun it must be fought to the end and the Nation saved. We must prove now that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bayonet. To preserve the Constitution of the Eepublic I must in this crisis strain some of its provisions...

...Paix a tout prix. ARHAND CARREL in the National, March 13, 1831. (Of the Perier ministry.) 8 Peace / keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful...

...Appomattox decided slavery and secession; but it decided more. It decided, in the words of Lincoln, "that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." That is the immortal lesson of the Civil War. Upon that principle rests the whole structure of democracy...

...republic — for the principle it lives by and keeps alive — for man's vast future — thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such...

...republic — for the principle it lives by, and keeps alive — for man's vast future, — thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such...

...of It dial. balla, of Gmc origin; akin to OHG balla ball] 36 ballot ballot Abraham Lincoln insisted that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet . . . they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost." Etymologically speaking,...