...knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just, — a way...

...knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not, cannot fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just,...

...We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slate we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike...save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed, this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way...

...society, certainly one purporting to be "democratic." Admonishing the 37th Congress, Lincoln said: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.3 Back east, however, things began to look up for the Confederacy on the military front as, on...

...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...shall nobly save, or meanly lose the last, best hope on earth." Refired but not refashioned in the furnaces of war, the American Creed thus received its...

...trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth. . . . The way ... if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." Lincoln's emancipation...

...Proclamation. On this day, December I, I862, President Lincoln stated in his Second Annual Message to Congress: "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...

...last, best hope of earth.... The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.... We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.22 I said above that Lincoln's eloquence...

...the contest to a higher plane: "We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way...

...and are everywhere saluted with waving handkerchiefs, with descending flowers. Abraham Lincoln said, In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. Gettysburg R General George Meade obert E. Lee knows there are strong peace movements in the North....