| 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...men, every-where, could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Although the proclamation of Emancipation had been prepared sometime before this letter was written—perhaps... | |
| 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 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal...wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LWCOLX." Many others called on or wrote to the President about this time, urging him to action in the... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 984 pages
...believe what I am doing hurts the canse, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to...re-establish the authority of the Constitution over the whole territory of the United States. His "paramount object," in every thing he did and in every thing... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...believe what 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...all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Address at Gettysburg, NOVEMBER 19, 1863. 1 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...believe what 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...all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Such appeals as that to which Mr. Lincoln replied in the foregoing letter, became more frequent, taking... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...believe what 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...oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere conld be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN." Many others called on or wrote to the President about this time,... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when I believe doing more will help the cause. " I have here stated my purpose according to my views...men everywhere could be free. " Yours, "A. LINCOLN." Here, again, we see the wisdom of the serpent, and the harmlessness of the dove, in the letter which... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. " I have here stated mv purpose according to my views of official duty ; and...men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN." Many others called on or wrote to the President about this time, urging him to action in the spirit... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...appear to be true views. I 'nave here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, find I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal...was impossible to mistake the President's meaning aftef this letter, or to have any doubt as to the policy by which he expected to re-establish the authority... | |
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