 ... gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent?...  Lincoln and Herndon - Page 176by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail,—if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may...but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH 4, 1861. Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail—if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may...but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come. n. SPEECH, Delivered at Cooper Institute, New York, Feb. 27, 1860. (See Ch. XXIV.) ME. PEESIDENT, AND... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 928 pages
...same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail ; if we stand firm we shall not fail. Wise counsels...but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." We all remember his simple, earnest, persuasive appeals to the South, in his first inaugural address.... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - United States - 1887 - 252 pages
...same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail ; if we stand firm we shall not fail. Wise counsels...but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." We all remember his simple, earnest, persuasive appeals to the South, in his first inaugural address.... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...and the grand argument closed hopefully. "The result is not doubtful," he said. "We shall not fail ; if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels...but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." The immediate result in Illinois was rendered more than doubtful, in spite of the enthusiastic applause... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1888 - 828 pages
...dissevered and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail ; if we stand firm we shall noi fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay...but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." We all remember his simple, earnest, persuasive appeals to the South, in his first inaugural address.... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 386 pages
...whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. . . . "We shall not fail — if we st.-md firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but the victory is sure to come." Was Lincoln or Greeley right? Which of the two needed to be reminded... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 372 pages
...hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. . . . We shall not fail — if we stand firm, ice shall not fail. "Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but the victory is sure to come." Was Lincoln or Greeley right? "Which of the two needed to be reminded... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 pages
...enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm we shall not fail. Wise counsels...but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." Lincoln's declaration that the cause of slavery restriction " must be intrusted to its own undoubted... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm we shall not fail. Wise counsels...but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." Lincoln's declaration that the cause of slavery restriction " must be intrusted to its own undoubted... | |
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