...for qualified emancipation of Southern black Americans with a warning: "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" (Lincoln V, 537). Though Appomattox was two and...

...anew. We must disenthrall our selves, 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 — even we here— hold the power,...

...politicians at the concert will be saved from hearing Lincoln's brooding words: "Fellow Citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves." Everyone in the cultural community was waiting for Virgil Thomson's strong voice. But publicly he was...

...Address, Washington, March 4, 1861] WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor...

...anew. We must disenthrall 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 we are for the Union. The world will not...

...their secretarial assistance. ix Fellow citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves....The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation . . . We, even we here, hold the power and bear...

...STATEMENT OF HON. MARGE ROUKEMA, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY "We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves." Those words remain as true today as they were the day Abraham Lincoln uttered them in 1862 and they...

...Lincoln, in his 1862 Annual Message, echo to us now: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . 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 last generation. . . . We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last,...

...its own termination. First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861. 1989:217. 3 Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give,...

...Republicans from being compelled to listen to Lincoln's brooding words: 'Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.' " Notwithstanding Busbey's rhetoric about all the "fine, patriotic and thoroughly American composers,"...