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" What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! "
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ... - Page 358
by Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 752 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...directly to me. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do especially as. we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be in-f operative like the Pope's Bull against the comet. Do not misunderstand me, because I have mentioned...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 37

Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...and right. . . . What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that...a single court, or magistrate, or individual that would be influenced by it there? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater effect...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...merits of the case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that...a single court, or magistrate, or individual that would be influenced by it there ? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater effect...
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Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ...

Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like...a single court, or magistrate, or individual that would be influenced by it there? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater effect...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...merits of the case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet 1 Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ?...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...merits of the case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from mo do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet I Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ?...
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Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...other things, " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the...necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull, [1862. against the comet. Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution...
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Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...other things, " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that...see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bul". against the comet. Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...of the case. " What good would a proclamation of Emancipation from me do, especially as we are now Harrison's Bar that, " As usual, we had a severe...yesterday, and beat the enemy badly ; the men fighting tho Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free tho slaves, when I can not even enforce tho Constitution...
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Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ...

Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...situated? I do not want to issue a document that the world will see must necessarily be inĀ° operative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free the slaves, when I Ccinnot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel states? Is there a single court, or magistrate,...
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