 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...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 170by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...on its decision of this one point. " Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...then we shall save our country. " Fellow - citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation. - " We say that we are for the Union. The world... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, ice can not escape history. We, of this Congress and this...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to. the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, wt cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We tay we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...anew. "We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor^ to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - United States - 1864 - 472 pages
...the United States at the close * " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. " We, of this Congress, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. "No personal...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. " We say that we are for the Union. The world will... | |
 | Abott A. Abott - 1864 - 104 pages
...original, or we should have wished to italicise these lines. " Above al, fellow citizens, we cannot escape history, We of this Congress, and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves." What sincerity and truthfulness of m'.nd shines all through these sentences ! " The fiery trial through... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
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