 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...white Emancipator images. But as history, Forced Into Glory brings to mind Lincoln's comment about "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." Easier, et al., eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, 3:16. If... | |
 | John C. Pemberton - History - 2002 - 384 pages
...declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; I have no inclination to do so." Although Eilet of the Union navy had earlier run the Vicksburg batteries... | |
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... a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery... 
