 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
 | Thomas Manson Norwood - Slavery - 1917 - 492 pages
...two pages, said, as quoted above: "Understand, I raise no objections against it (the Proclamation) on legal or Constitutional grounds, for, as Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, in time of war, I suppose I have the right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy, NOR DO I UEGE OBJECTIONS... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 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,...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 1144 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 measures which may best subdue the enemy." * 8 "You dislike the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...proclamation as you desire? Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or const:tutional 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 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,...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... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 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... | |
 | Mark E. Neely Jr. - History - 1992 - 297 pages
...3, he explicitly told a delegation of Chicago Christians urging emancipation: "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." Emancipation was for... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 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... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...the president continued, he was raising "no objections" at all against a proclamation such as this "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." This, of course, was... | |
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