Memories and Studies · William James
ROBERT GOULD SHAW[1]
O my countrymen, Southern and Northern, brothers hereafter, masters, slaves, and enemies no more, let us see to it that both of those heirlooms are preserved. So may our ransomed country, like the city of the promise, lie forever foursquare under Heaven, and the ways of all the nations be lit up by its light. [1] Oration at the Exercises in the Boston Music Hall, May 31, 1897, upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument. [2] G. W. James: "The Assault upon Fort Wagner," in _War Papers read before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States_. Milwaukee, 1891.
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