 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 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...by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the 1 acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever means or process, make it an executive duty to... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...peace, 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...or modify the Emancipation Proclamation ; nor shall 1 return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...masters, would, in his judgment be an astounding breach of that faith." " I may add," said he, " that while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to modify or retract the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...masters, would, in his judgment be an astounding broach of that faith." " I may add," said he, " that while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to modify or retract the Emancipation Proclamation, uor shall I return to slavery any person who is free... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...Government, I retract nothingheretofore said as to Slavery. I 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 rëenslave such persons,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 872 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Emily Hazen Reed - New Orleans (La.) - 1868 - 392 pages
...I think I shall not, in any event, retract the Emancipation Proclamation ; nor, as Executive, ever return to slavery any person who is free by the terms...that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. " If Louisiana shall send members to Congress, their admission to seats will depend, as you know, upon... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1028 pages
...possible reconstruction with slavery; and this in spite of the President's categorical statement, " While I remain in my present position I shall not...that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress," and of his declaration that such action would be " a cruel and an astounding breach of faith." But... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...manifested his determination to insist on disunion — a point that would never be conceded. -" I shall not retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor...person who is free by the terms of that proclamation. If the people should make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must... | |
 | Samuel Aspinwall Goddard - United States - 1870 - 612 pages
...says the President, ' that while I remain in my situation, I shall not attempt to modify or retract the Emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of the proclamation, or by any act of Congress.' " It will at once be seen that these comments, by our... | |
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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... 
