 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, aery for help; the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step, It may be viewed as the last measure of an...would be considered our last shriek on the retreat" (This was his precise expression.) " ' Now,' continued Mr. Seward, ' while I approve the measure, I... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...great, that I fear the effect of so important a step, It may bo viewed as the last measure of an t exhausted Government — a cry for help ; the Government...would be considered our last shriek on the retreat" (This was his precise expression.) "'Now,' continued Mr. Seward, ' while I approve the measure, I suggest,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step, It may be viewed as the last measure of an...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the Government.' llis idea," said the President, " was, that it would be considered onr last shriek on the retreat."... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step, It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government — a cry for hvlp ; the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step, It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government—a cry for help; the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - History - 1866 - 364 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an...would be considered our last shriek, on the retreat." (This was his precise* expression.) " ' Now,' continued Mr. Seward, ' while I approve the measure,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an...stretching forth her hands to the Government. His idea was, that it would be considered our last shriek on the retreat. Now,' continued Mr. Seward, ' while... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1866 - 662 pages
...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the Government.' c His idea,' said the President, ' was that it would be considered our last shriek, on the retreat.'... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...public mind consequent upon our repeated reverses i» so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government — our last shriek on the retreat." He further advised Mr. Lincoln to postpone the measure until it... | |
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Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed... 
