| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means , may succeed, this could... | |
| United States. President - United States - 1862 - 990 pages
...know how to save it. We — even их here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In jiving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in wbat we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, •л meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.... | |
| Abott A. Abott - 1864 - 104 pages
...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, and bear the...assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...even tee here — bold the power and bear the responsibility. In gniny freedom to the tlave we aatvre freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we ^>res«rve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The worljl knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the...freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give nnd what w«r preserve. We slmll nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means... | |
| Funeral sermons - 1865 - 408 pages
...in which he disclosed his purpose of giving freedom to the slave. It assumed the form of a duty. " In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nohly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed : this could not... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...forward without fear and with manly hearts," Message, July 5, 1861. ' In giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free) honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve," Message, December 1,1862. " I hope peace will oome soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...forward without fear and with manly hearts." Mtssaye, July 6, 18«1. In giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free ; honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve," Xeasage, December 1, 1802. " I hope peace will come soon, and come to stay | and so come as to be worth... | |
| George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 438 pages
...;" " Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed ;" " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free;" "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb ;"... | |
| William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 pages
...of events, by authority of the United States, should ever be returned to bondage. His maxim was, " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." No man deplored the war more than he. But the action of the slaveholding States in challenging arbitrament... | |
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