The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . as-ion. As our case is new, so we must think anew andact anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then weshall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We ofthis Congress and this administration will be remem-bered in spite of ourselves. No personal significanceor insignificance can spare one or another of us. Thefiery trial through which we pass will light us down,in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We saywe are for the Union. The wor
The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . as-ion. As our case is new, so we must think anew andact anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then weshall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We ofthis Congress and this administration will be remem-bered in spite of ourselves. No personal significanceor insignificance can spare one or another of us. Thefiery trial through which we pass will light us down,in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We saywe are for the Union. The world will not forget thatwe say this. We know how to save the Union. Theworld knows we do know how to save it. We—evenwe here—hold the power and bear the giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom tothe free—honorable alike in what we give and whatwe preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly losethe last, best hope of earth. Other means may suc-ceed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peace-ful, generous, just—a way which, if followed, the worldwill forever applaud, and God must forever so•<o to o oo •<oto •<o I fc5I SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 363 FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION,JANUARY 1, 1863. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, inthe year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred andsixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the Presidentof the United States, containing, among other things,the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the year of ourLord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, allpersons held as slaves within any State, or designatedpart of a State, the people whereof shall then be inrebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free; and the ExecutiveGovernment of the United States, including the mili-tary and naval authority thereof, will recognize andmaintain the freedom of such persons, and will do noact or acts to repress such persons, or any o
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