 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
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1916 - 354 pages
...of the public mind, following upon recent reverses, might make it viewed as the last measure, a cry for help, — the government stretching forth its...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.' Hence, he advised deferring its issue until supported by some military success." The wisdom of that... | |
 | Philip Robert Dillon - History - 1918 - 378 pages
...Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the Government. Now, while I approve of the measure, I suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country by military success, instead of issuing it as would be the case now, upon the greatest disasters of... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Presidents - 1922 - 510 pages
...shriek from and for the Administration, rather than for freedom."4 He added the picturesque phrase, "The government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government." This idea struck Lincoln with very great force. It was an aspect of the case "which he had entirely... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Rose Wright - Determination (Personality trait) - 1925 - 472 pages
...like the desperate effort of a dying cause, and a cry for help, as if in its extremity the North was "stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the North." Lincoln believed the Secretary's point well taken, so he put aside the Proclamation temporarily... | |
 | Edna Mary Colman - Presidents - 1925 - 404 pages
...as 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 appeal. 'Now,' continued Mr. Seward, 'while I approve of the... | |
 | Honoré Morrow - American fiction - 1927 - 428 pages
...view it as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching her hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government; the last shriek on our retreat." This was characteristic reasoning on the part of Seward, thought Lincoln,... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - United States - 1927 - 754 pages
...issue it just after the greatest disaster of the war; it would be "the government stretching forth her hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government"; the proclamation should be "borne on the bayonets of an advancing army, not dragged in the dust behind... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 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,... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 pages
...as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help ; the government stretching forth Us hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching...President, "was that it would be considered our last shHek, on the retreat." (This was his precise expression.) "'Now,' continued Mr. Seward, * while I... | |
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