 | United States Department of State - 1965 - 984 pagina’s
...this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even гее here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility....of earth. Other means may succeed ; this, could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - 1871 - 392 pagina’s
...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 - 1872 - 508 pagina’s
...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...of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful/generous, just, — a way which, if followed, the world will forever... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 pagina’s
...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. We — even we here — hold the power...of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 pagina’s
...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. We — even we here — hold the power...of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - 1875 - 278 pagina’s
...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...of 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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 408 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 396 pagina’s
...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 Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 260 pagina’s
...Abraham Lincoln became a great proverbialist. Scores of his pithy sayings are current among the people. "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to- the free," is the sum-total of all the policy which urged Emancipation for the sake of the white man. " This struggle... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 264 pagina’s
...Lincoln became a great .proverbialist. Scores of his pithy sayings are current among the people. " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free," is the sum-total of all the policy which urged Emancipation for the sake of the white man. " This struggle... | |
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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. 
