We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. British and Foreign State Papers - Page 234by Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1868Full view - About this book
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...bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall...could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, jast — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. ABRAHAM... | |
| Frederick Thomas Jones - United States - 1886 - 350 pages
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| Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1888 - 526 pages
...and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this conld not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world... | |
| George Alfred Townsend - 1888 - 692 pages
...President thus explains this act: "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...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... | |
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| John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
...bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...Other means may succeed, this could not fail. The way AMua™' is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if fol- ID™a?J)' lowed, the world will... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
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| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1891 - 462 pages
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| William Uhler Hensel - Campaign biography - 1892 - 590 pages
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