...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...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. • Recommendation to Congress, March 6, 1862, in Regard to a Gradual and Compensated Emancipation1...

...bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, — honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...just, — a way which, if followed, the world will for ever applaud, and God must for ever bless. Emancipation Proclamation. January 1, 1863 Whereas,...

...bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, — honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...just, — a way which, if followed, the world will for ever applaud, and God must for ever bless. Emancipation Proclamation. January r, 1863 Whereas,...

...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...generous, just, a way which if followed the world will approve, and God must forever bless.'' [Applause.] Accepting this view as the true and logical interpretation...

...bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free,—honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall...could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just,—a way which, if followed, the world will for ever applaud, and God must for ever bless. Emancipation...

...become "an impossible place to live in." He spoke with resolve on the necessity of preserving the union: "The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a...the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless."7 The same might be said of Americanization. It, too, is plain, peaceful, generous, and just....

...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. 32 Amidst...

...this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We-even we here-bold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom...could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." As the...

...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...save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. (Abraham Lincoln) INTRODUCTION The Civil War is, without doubt, one of the central, formative events...

...message to Congress on December 1, 1862, Abraham Lincoln said, "We know how to save the Union. . . . We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best...will forever applaud and God must forever bless." Reagan may have been borrowing this secondhand, for the reference to the United States as "the last...