And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones, unable to... New Englander and Yale Review - Page 3381889Full view - About this book
| John Thomas Bell - 1903 - 222 pages
...the bullet, and that they who take such appeal will be sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then, there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great... | |
| Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 1988 - 354 pages
...more than fifty years ago by Abraham Lincoln in that noble letter to the Springfield Convention: "And there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue and clenched teeth and steady eye and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great... | |
| James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 pages
...proclamation on purpose to aid you in saving the Union." When this war was won, concluded the president, "there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great... | |
| Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 pages
...black "freedom fighters" to white shirkers from all mankind's struggle: And then [when peace comes], there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this consummation;... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 226 pages
...black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and wellpoised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they... | |
| Michel Rosenfeld - 1994 - 452 pages
...men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, 73 1 LINCOLN, supra note 53 at 316. I* Id. 75... | |
| Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - 1994 - 278 pages
...he understood the liberation of the spirit which military participation would bring to the freedmen. "There will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great... | |
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