 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
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1908 - 214 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-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... | |
 | Simeon Davidson Fess - Political parties - 1910 - 466 pages
...I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? . . . Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds, for,...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." He admitted that slavery... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 336 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-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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...would follow the issuing of such a proclamation 20 as you desire? Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds ; for,...commanderin-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... | |
 | Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 620 pages
...designated 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...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." This is a clear and... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 448 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-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... | |
 | John Anderson Richardson - Confederate States of America - 1914 - 616 pages
...little short, in character, if any, to those of Thaddeus Stevens: "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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 218 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 15 the enemy; nor do I urge objections... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 680 pages
...September, 1862, he stated his conviction relative to that matter in the following unequivocal declaration: "I raise no objection against it on legal or constitutional...commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measures which may best subdue the enemy." 9 These quotations... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 354 pages
...September, 1862, he stated his conviction relative to that matter in the following unequivocal declaration: "I raise no objection against it on legal or constitutional...commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measures which may best subdue the enemy." * These quotations... | |
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