 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...determination to issue it. Mr. Seward said: " Mr. President, I approve of the Proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses is BO great, that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...anticipated, until Mr. Reward said: "Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...public mind consequent upon our repeated reverses i» so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1866 - 440 pages
...Stwirrd spoke. He said in substance : ' 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 repeitcd reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...Secretary B»ward •poke. Said he, ' 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 onr repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important • step. It may be viewed... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...spoke. He said in substance, — " ' Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation ; but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...— a cry for help; the Government stretching forth her hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the Government.' " His idea... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...spoke. He said in substance, — " ' Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation ; but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...fear the effect of so important a step. It may be vie\ved as the last measure of an exhausted Government, — a cry for help; the Government stretching... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1867 - 384 pages
...the Cabinet meetings, to the effect that such an act at that time might be considered the last effort of an exhausted Government, — " a cry for help ;...stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Kthiopia stretching forth its hands to the Government." He therefore proposed that the document should... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 pages
...said in substance : ' Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the ex pediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the...to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth hor hands to the government.' His idea," said the President, " was that it would be considered our... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...any change until Mr. Seward said: "Mr. President, I approve of the Proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that T fear the effect of so- important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government;... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...opportune. Referring to recent reverses and the consequent depression of the public mind, he said, " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted...— a cry for help, — the government stretching its hand to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government ; our last shriek... | |
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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... 
