WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg covenant – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Garfield, James A. -- “Suffrage and Safety,” speech, Ravenna, Ohio (4 Jul 1865) https://wist.info/garfield-james-a/43020/ https://wist.info/garfield-james-a/43020/#respond Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:13:48 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43020 In the great crisis of the war, God brought us face to face with the mighty truth, that we must lose our own freedom or grant it to the slave. In the extremity of our distress, we called upon the black man to help us save the Republic; and, amid the very thunders of battle, we made a covenant with him, sealed both with his blood and with ours, and witnessed by Jehovah, that, when the nation was redeemed, he should be free, and share with us its glories and its blessings. The Omniscient Witness will appear in judgment against us if we do not fulfill that covenant.


James A. Garfield (1831-1881) US President (1881), lawyer, lay preacher, educator
“Suffrage and Safety,” speech, Ravenna, Ohio (4 Jul 1865)
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