 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.' Here two things are made perfectly clear, the personal wish and the official duty. Abraham Lincoln,... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...appear to be 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 men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. When Mr. Lincoln wrote the foregoing letter the defeat of General Pope at the second... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...when shown to be errors, and 1 shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. It was impossible to mistake the President's meaning after this letter, or to have... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have hero stated my purpose according to my views of official...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Tours, A. LINCOLN. It was impossible to mistake the President's meaning after this letter, or to have... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...personal wish that all men, every-where, could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Although the proclamation of Emancipation had been prepared sometime before this... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...appear to be true views. "I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty; and 1 Yours, A. LWCOLX." Many others called on or wrote to the President about this time, urging him to action... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when I believe doing more will help the cause. " I have...personal wish, that all men everywhere could be free. " Yours, "A. LINCOLN." Here, again, we see the wisdom of the serpent, and the harmlessness of the dove,... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt nevy views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. " I have here stated my purpose according to my views...personal wish, that all men everywhere could be free. " Yours, "A. LINCOLN." Here, again, we see the wisdom of the serpent, and the harmlessness of the dove,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Address at Gettysburg, NOVEMBER 19, 1863. 1 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...when shown to be e'rrors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Such appeals as that to which Mr. Lincoln replied in the foregoing letter, became... | |
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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. 
