 I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation. Nor shall I return to slavery *any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by...  The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Page 621by Jefferson Davis - 1881 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. " For these and other reasons, it is thought best that support of these... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. For these and other reasons it is thought best that support of these measures... | |
 | United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865). - New Orleans (La.) - 1862 - 754 pages
...remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. For these and other reasons, it is thought best that support of these... | |
 | James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 pages
...remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation ; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. For these and other reasons, it is thought best that support of these... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...remain in my present position. I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation ; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. For these and other reasons, it is thought best that support of .these... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1864 - 934 pages
...remain iu my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive... | |
 | History - 1865 - 728 pages
...remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by any of the Acts of Congress. " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, d driven off in hot haste to join the retreating army. Thronging about the depot were hundred any of the acts of Congress.1 If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 468 pages
...remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." Less could not have been said without dishonor. More was not needed to... | |
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