 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 874 pages
...of a lever of power, but a cruel and astounding breach of faith. And he added these weighty words: "While I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract, nor .modify, the Emancipation Proclamation; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1917 - 586 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 attempt to retract or modify the emanc1pation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 704 pages
...Army; and in discussing the proclamation of freedom he made the famous declaration that he would never "return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation." He referred very briefly, but earnestly, to his favorite proposition for compensation to "the states... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. WHILE I remain in my present position I shall not...that Proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. <I If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...part, 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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1924 - 574 pages
...reference to his position as to slavery. " I repeat," he said, " the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not...free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any acts of Congress. If the people should by whatever mode or means make it an executive duty to re-enslave... | |
 | Edward Chase Kirkland - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 298 pages
...decisive year of 1864 was right at hand. The discussion of slavery came toward the end of the message. "While I remain in my present position, I shall not...proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." 27 Here was another public profession of his adherence to the policy of emancipation. Yet this assertion... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...back nothing he previously had said regarding 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.' " And he added: "In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 pages
...regarding Emancipation, in the following language : "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... | |
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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... 
