 | Michel Rosenfeld - 1994 - 452 páginas
...the strongest motive — even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept . . . Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay . . . then, there be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...reprinted in Collected Worlb of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 437. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such... | |
 | Frances H. Kennedy - 1998 - 536 páginas
...fighting abilities, as they had at Port Hudson the previous May. Estimated Casualties: 1,515 US, 222 CS Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successßtl appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take... | |
 | David A. J. Richards - 1998 - 545 páginas
...the strongest motive — even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept. . . . Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay . . . then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth,... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 páginas
...they have and are to achieve it. Speaking of peace in the summer of 1863, Lincoln wrote that he hoped "it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time."123 (Emphasis added.) Similarly, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address exhorts the nation to achieve... | |
 | John Waugh - 2009 - 478 páginas
...principle it lives by, and keeps alive—for man's vast future—thanks to all." He had added that "peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such... | |
 | Ethan M. Fishman - 2002 - 248 páginas
...pragmatism and cynicism of those •whites •who •would deprive black people of their deserved freedom: Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 2002 - 320 páginas
...added to their usual "Happy New Year" — "and peace in the spring." "God grant that it may come — and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the having!" THE LEVEE The members of the Cabinet and other high functionaries kept open house, but as... | |
 | Alexander Saxton - 2003 - 424 páginas
...(stripped of the autonomy attributed to it by Hildreth) a keystone in his 1864 presidential campaign. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope...come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. ... And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 páginas
...humanity with the slave. "Peace," writes Lincoln in a letter to James C. Conkling on August 2.6, 1863, "does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will...come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. . . . And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clinched... | |
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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. 
