 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 405by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. T. Headley - History - 1866 - 774 pages
...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and...be remembered in spite of» ourselves. No personal signifieance, or insignifieance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass,... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...plead for emancipation, how earnest and outspoken were his words ! In his Annual Message he said, " We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...his own insistence, Mr. Lincoln concluded with the following weighty words : — " Fellow-citizens, we cannot 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 honour or dishonour, to the latest... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...annals of our country and the history of the world. ' The fiery trials through which we are passing will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.' If we cannot ' escape history,' let us make our record right, and display that patriotism, wisdom and... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration...down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. * * In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike to what we give... | |
 | United States Department of State - United States - 1965 - 984 pages
...anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Civil rights - 1872 - 508 pages
...language of our patriotic Chief Magistrate, that " We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and of this administration will be remembered in spite of...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ; honorable alike in what we give and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 886 pages
...annals of our country and the history of the world. ' The fiery trials through which we are passing will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.' If we cannot ' escape history,' let us make our record right, and display that patriotism, wisdom,... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The... | |
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