| 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 - Civil rights - 1872 - 508 pages
...fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...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... | |
| John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...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....; 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."... | |
| John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...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....; 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."... | |
| Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...without the concurrence of, first, two-thirds of Congress, and afterwards, three-fourths of the states." "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom...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
...for their actual freedom." In his message to Congress, the President thus explained this act : — " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...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... | |
| John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows that we do know how to save it. 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... | |
| John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...know how to saye the Union. The world knows that we do know how to save it. We—even we here—hold the power and bear the responsibility! In giving freedom...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 forever... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - America - 1877 - 396 pages
...for their actual freedom." In his message to Congress, the President thus explained this act : — "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...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... | |
| Charles Hatch Smith - American poetry - 1880 - 92 pages
...in the Volcanic fires of yEtna, are but faint types of his doom." NOTE XVII. PART THIRD, VS. XI. a. In giving freedom to the Slave we assure freedom to...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. — Second Ann' I Message of Abraham Lincoln. b. The close of the late Rebellion was the "intellectual... | |
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