 | James Baldwin - Diligence - 1904 - 298 pages
...to issue it just • then, when the Union armies appeared to be so pressed ; he feared that it would be viewed " as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help " ; he dreaded that it would be considered " as our last shriek on the retreat." Would it not be better... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 416 pages
...already fully anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance, 'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.' His idea," said... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...already fully anticipated and settled in my mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance, ' Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.' His idea," said... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...would cost the administration the fall elections. Seward pleaded for delay, saying, in substance : " Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so 1 Cnrui. Globe, p. 3322 et seq. » Ibid., p. 8394. important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...already fully anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance: 'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.' His idea," said... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 pages
...fully anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance : 'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.' His idea," said... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...fully anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance : 'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure ef an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - History - 1907 - 414 pages
...offered.2 While approving the document, he urged that it ought not to be given out in a day of disaster. " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted...for help; — the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands to the Government ; — a shriek on the... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - History - 1907 - 401 pages
...2 While approving the document, he urged that it ought not to be given out in a day of disaster. " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government, a cry for help;—the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...not fully anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance: "'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but...cry for help; the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the Government.' His idea," said... | |
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Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. 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... 
