 I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment...  Lincoln in American Memory - Page 125by Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 496 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 458 pages
...of the war: " EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 4, 1864. " I am naturally anti-slavery, and yet I never understood that the Presidency conferred upon...to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...slavery is not irrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think andT feel. And y-ct I have never understood that the Presidency conferred...unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment ind feeling. It was in the oath I took, that I would to the besfof my ability preserve, protect, and... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...of the war: " EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 4, 1864. " I am naturally anti-slavery, and yet I never understood that the Presidency conferred upon...to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 1020 pages
...of viewing the great questions at issue, which I have not clearly presented. In the former he says: I am naturally antislavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel. And yet, I have never understood that the Presidency... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...about as follows: ' I am naturally antislavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet...to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...his views in the following clear, forcible, and characteristic way, after three years of war : — " I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not see, think, and feel that it was wrong, and yet I have never understood... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...about as follows : " ' I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel ; and yet...to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best oi my ability, preserve, protect and defend the... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...about as follows: " I am naturally antislavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet...to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...about as follows: " I am naturally antislavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet...to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...supra, §§ 27, 63, 3(!5). Thus, in Mr. Lincoln's letter to Mr. Hodges, of April 4, 1864, he said : "I have never understood that the presidency conferred...right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling (of disapproval of slavery). . . It was in theoath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve,... | |
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