 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...1863, he referred to the success which had attended the proclamation of emancipation, and added, " While I remain in my present position, I shall not...proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." More and more clearly will it be seen, as time rolls on, that the President could not have done his... | |
 | George Ware Briggs - 1865 - 62 pages
...be assassinated on the spot than surrender the principles of liberty;" and to declare, in 1863, 15 " While I remain in my present position, I shall not...Proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress." The honesty which won for him confidence at first, inspired the nation with ever-deepening trust, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1865 - 728 pages
...retract nothing heretofore said. As to slavery, I repeat the declaration made a year ago, and that while I remain in my present position I shall not...that proclamation or by any of the Acts of Congress. " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re.enslave such persons,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not...that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress. " If the people should, by whatever mode, or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not...that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons,... | |
 | William James Potter - 1865 - 78 pages
...the president never recedes from that decree. " The promise," he says, " being made, must be kept." " While I remain in my present position, I shall not...Proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." And again, " If the people," he says, " by whatever mode or means, should make it an executive duty"... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. 1 repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position, I shall not...proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to ree'nslave such persons,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not...that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress. '. If the people should, by whatever mode, or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons,... | |
 | George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 438 pages
...upon his monument than these from his last message ? "I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not...that Proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1865 - 960 pages
...heretofore shall be adopted. slavery. I repent the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain iu my present position I shall not attempt to retract...proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons,... | |
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I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by... 
