...freedom to the slave," he told Congress in December i862 on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, "we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."2 Never was freedoms protean and contested nature more evident than during the Civil War....

...peaceful ballots only, are necessary, [popularly quoted as: The ballot is stronger than the bullet.l 6351 on The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all pos - honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last,...

...was an invading army 17, 1862, that the Union was one purchased at tremendous Voice of the Century "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. " —Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862 repulsed and Northern...

...latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not 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 responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure...

...latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not 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-bold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure...

...constitutional amendments regarding state emancipation and colonization of free blacks, he declares: We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how...nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.137 Here, saving the Union means not only a federal victory over southern secession forces, but...

...Let us not confuse the modest with the insignificant. Lincoln once remarked, in a famous line, that "in giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...free— honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve."9 In this case, we might say that, in setting in place these, most elementary protections...

...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 to the free. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth." Jefferson Davis had no such...

...regard for my own safety would admit. John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788) 13 In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, — honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. Abraham Lincoln, message to Congress, 1...

...more prosperous State and Nation. It reminded me of Abraham Lincoln's words over a century earlier: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." Lincoln and Evers correctly recognized the dehumanizing effects of racism on whites, too. White guilt...