It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.