...patriotism, humanity, and religion : Fellow-Citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress, and of this administration, will be remembered in spite of...fiery trial through which we pass will light us down with honour or dishonour, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not...

...preservation of the Union. HOOK. I entirely agree. LINCOLN. Gentlemen, we cannot escape history. We of this administration will be remembered in spite of...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the...

...and then we shall save our country." "Fellow-citizens," he began his concluding paragraph, "we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it." Now the time had come...

...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 8, p. 155. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1 990). REMEMBRANCE We of this Congress and this administration will be...or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. "Annual Message to Congress," December 1 , 1 862, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,...

...Gettysburg. "Fellowcitizens, we cannot escape history," he told Congress — and the American people. "The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." For America, Lincoln insisted,...

...anew. We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We — even we here— hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we...

...for qualified emancipation of Southern black Americans with a warning: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation" (Lincoln V, 537). Though Appomattox was two and a half years away, Lincoln's rhetoric had started to...

...politicians at the concert will be saved from hearing Lincoln's brooding words: "Fellow Citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves." Everyone in the cultural community was waiting for Virgil Thomson's strong voice. But publicly he was...

...history. We and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We — even we here—- hold the power and bear the The President seated at a table, photographed by Alexander...

...themselves from the dogmas of the past. To give freedom to the slave was to preserve it for all others, and "the fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."1» It was no use. The peculiar institution's inviolability ran across the North as well...