 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...the ground-work of the campaign, but heralded one of the world's great historical events. He said: " 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...ground- work of the campaign, but heralded one of the world's great historical events. He said : " 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 pages
...said : " 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... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...occasioned much comment and criticism, was as follows : " Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : 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... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 272 pages
...Abraham Lincoln in his celebrated speech at Springfield, June 9, 1858. Mr. Lincoln opened thus:— " 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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...here. It is as follows : — * '• MR. PRESIDENT, AMU trENTLEMgtf OP THE CONTENTION :— If WO COnld 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 fur into the fifth year tince a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 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... | |
 | National Association of Life Underwriters - Life insurance - 1891 - 164 pages
...utterances of the second father of his country in that celebrated Springfield speech, " If we could but first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could the better judge what to do and how to do it." If we could but clearly see where we are, would it not... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...American orations, he modelled the beginning of his speech after Webster's exordium.4 Lincoln began : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1892 - 618 pages
...many very decided speeches regarding the slave question. Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, 1ll., said: " 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. 
