 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 as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 2671889Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 380 pages
...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...President, " was that it would be considered our last ehriek, on the retreat." (This was his precise expression.) " ' Now,' continued Mr. Seward, ' while... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help." "His idea," Lincoln recalled later, "was that it would be considered our last shriek, on the retreat." With his advisers divided, Lincoln adjourned the cabinet meeting without reaching a decision on issuing... | |
 | Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - History - 1996 - 674 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...of the current series of military defeats, it "would be considered the last shriek of the retreat," the government "stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government. ... 1 suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country supported by military... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...incitement for a race war to succeed the civil war that the government hadn't been able to win on its own, "the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government" (in Seward's apt biblical simile). "While I approve the measure," Seward pleaded, postpone its issue,... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...lacked the power to win the war. This decree would, Seward said, playing on a biblical simile, look like "the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government" or like a "last shriek on the retreat." As such, the European empires would read it as an incitement... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 pages
...timing of the proclamation. "It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government," Carpenter reported him saying. 151 Indeed, from the perspective of Ethiopia, the government was asking... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...... It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help . . .' His idea was that it would be considered our last shriek, on the retreat. 'Now,' continued Mr. Seward, 'while I approve the measure, I suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue,... | |
 | Labor - 1912 - 608 pages
...the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help — the Government stretching forth her hands to Ethiopia instead of Ethiopia 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... | |
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