 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 540 pages
...CONVENTION: — If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...year, Mr. Lincoln, in the course of an address to that body, gave utterance to these memorable words : "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...here, but the " key-note" which startled the nation is as follows : " Gentlemen of the Convention : If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...Nation, or an entirely free labor Nation." Lincoln s words at Springfield, in July, 1S,~>\ were " It we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better jud'_ r e what to do, and how to do it. We are now fur into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...here, but the " key-note" which startled the nation is as follows : " Gentlemen of the Convention : If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 pages
...ETC. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JUNE 17, 1858. GENTLEMEN OF THE CONTENTION: TF we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...should not have been separated in an address discussing moral obligations. What I did say was this : ' If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 144 pages
...the State of Kansas, and were rapidly gathering throughout the length and breadth of the country : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1886 - 804 pages
...unerased." These are the words that he prized so highly, and which, for the time, cost him so much : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - United States - 1887 - 252 pages
...unerased." These are the words that he prized so highly, and which, for the time, cost him so much : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. 
