 | James Mitchell Ashley - History - 1894 - 950 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,... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 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...the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.' If the... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return any person who is free by the terms of 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...retract the emancipation proclamation ; nor, as executive, ever return to slavery any person who is freed by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. If these views can be of any advantage in giving shape and impetus to action there, I shall be glad... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 pages
...retract the Emancipation Proclamation ; nor, as Executive, ever return to slavery any person who is freed by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." TO KANSAS DELEGATION, SEPTEMBER, 1863. " I am well aware that by many, by some even among this delegation... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...to slavery. 1 repeat the declaration made a year ago, that ' while I remain in my present position 1 shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall 1 return any person who js free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.'... | |
 | William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...friends, 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...that 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"... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing - United States - 1895 - 484 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...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,... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 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...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,... | |
 | Edmund Gibson Ross - 1896 - 200 pages
...of power, but would also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith. I may add at this point, that while I remain in my present position, I shall not...to slavery any person who is free by the terms of the Proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. For these and other reasons it is thought best... | |
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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... 
