 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 902 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that ' while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 930 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that ' while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...they have aided, and will further aid, the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel andan astounding breach of faith. I may add at this point, that while I remain in my present position... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...annual message to Congress, December, 1864, Lincoln said : " I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...that while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation. Nor shall I return to slavery any person...free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 800 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 752 pages
...condition to ending the war," said the President, " I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. . . . While I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation. Nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...they have aided and will further aid, the Cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them, would be not only to relinquish a lever of power,...also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith." And, toward the close of the Message, he added : " The movements by State action, for Emancipation,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...they have aided, and will further aid, the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and astounding breach of faith. I may add at this point, that while I remain in my present position I shall... | |
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I may add at this point that, while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts... 
