 Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or Constitutional grounds, for, as Commander-inChief of the Army and Navy, in time of War, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the Enemy...  Executive Power - Page vby Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...proclamation as you desire ? Understand: I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional groiinds; for, as Commander-in-chief of the army and navy in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy; nor do I urge objections... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as yon desire ? Understand : I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds ; for, as Commander-in-chief of the army and navy •"Sept. 13. in time of war, I suppose I have я right to take any measure which may best subdue the... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...good would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as you desire. Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds; for,...commander-inchief of the army and navy, in time of war I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy; nor do I urge objections... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...good would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as you desire. Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds ; for,...commander-inchief of the army and navy, in time of war I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy ; nor do I urge objections... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 872 pages
...by the President, in his reply to the address of the Chicago clergymen, in the following words : ' Understand, I raise no objection against it on legal or Constitutional grounds ; for, as Commander-in Chief of the Army and Navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Judges - 1879 - 460 pages
...whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and for ever free ; and the Executive Government of the United...grounds ; for, as commander-in-chief of the army and naty, in time of war, I suppose 1 have a right to take any measure which may best tubdue the enemy."... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Judges - 1879 - 520 pages
...to a deputation of clergymen from Chicago, in which he said: "Understand, I raise no objections to it on legal or constitutional grounds ; for, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy : nor do I urge objections... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...please, what possible result of good would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as you desire ? Understand : I raise no objection against it on legal...Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the €nemy ; nor do I urge objections... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1883 - 648 pages
...please, what possible result of good would follow the issuing -of such a proclamation as you desire ? Understand: I raise no objection against it on legal or constitutional grounds ; for, asCommander-in-Chief of the army and navy in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...good would follow the issuing of such a Proclamation as you desire ? Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or Constitutional grounds, for,...Commander-inChief of the Army and Navy, in time of War, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the Enemy, nor do I urge objections... | |
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