I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. Abraham Lincoln - Page 337by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
| American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...I am doing hurts the cause. I shall do more whenever I believe that doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors:...oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.' Here two things are made perfectly clear, the personal wish and the official duty. Abraham... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views." It was probably easy to him now to write these masterful generalities, but a week or two later, after... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...grounds, in a paper of such dignity." [Welling in "North American Review," February, 1880, p. 168. ] and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall...true views. I have here stated my purpose according lo my view of official duty ; and 1 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors,...official duty, and I intend no modification of my often expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." It has been our earnest wish... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors,...official duty, and I intend no modification of my often expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." It has been our earnest wish... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors...oft-expressed personal wish that all men, every-where, could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Although the proclamation of Emancipation had been prepared sometime before... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help tho cause. " ~ + views of official duty; and 1 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors,...views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors,...fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have hero stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...believw 4." ing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when phown tn be error*, an4 I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have hero stated my purpose according to my vi*w of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expreaml... | |
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