 | William Uhler Hensel - Campaign biography - 1892 - 590 pages
...message to Congress, the President thus explains this act: "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give...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 carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...even we here — hold the power and uear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we...preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the lust, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed, this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 396 pages
...even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, — honorable alike in what we...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." Beautiful and impressive as was this appeal, it persuaded few or none. In fact, no effort on the President's... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slate we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." The War Department was a part of the Administration. Why such inefficiency at Washington ? Why were... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we...save or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth." Privately, Lincoln was not so certain of success. At month's end he told his friend Andrew G. Curtin,... | |
 | John Samuel Apperson - Hospitals - 2001 - 684 pages
...our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history... .In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we...save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth." Quoted in Long, 292. Gen. [John Buchanan] Floyd has caused our men to suffer. He has only a few soldiers... | |
 | Bobby Delaughter - Law - 2001 - 320 pages
...reminded me of Abraham Lincoln's words over a century earlier: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." Lincoln and Evers correctly recognized the dehumanizing effects of racism on whites, too. White guilt... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...even we here— hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way in which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. (Lincoln 688) Antithesis... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - Art - 2002 - 202 pages
...glories and agonies of that period with impressive eloquence: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we...save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...however, was coupled with a call for action. "In giving freedom to the slave," he insisted, "we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give,...save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." American nationalism was again part of an ideal for the entire world. 27 Lincoln, Works. 5 : 338-9.... | |
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We, even we here, hold the power 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 nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other... 
