 | 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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...for delay, saying, in substance : " Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...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
...Seward 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...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...Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands to the Government ; — a shriek on the retreat." This suggestion... | |
 | 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 - 764 pages
...Seward 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...consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great thnt I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted... | |
 | Ester Singleton - World history - 1908 - 598 pages
...Seward 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, following upon recent reverses, might make it viewed as the last measure, a cry for help, — the government... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - United States - 1913 - 410 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...Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands to the Government ; — a shriek on the retreat." This suggestion... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - United States - 1913 - 408 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 Government, a cry for help;—the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1913 - 240 pages
...were now given to the country in the midst of our military disasters, it might be looked upon as " a cry for help, the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia " and as " our last shriek on the retreat."1 Better wait, he argued, till it be supported by military... | |
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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... 
