 I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether, at any time, or in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance...  The African Repository - Page 1761862Full view - About this book
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any Stale or States free, and whether, at any time, in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable...questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to my;elf, and which I cannot feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field. These... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...commandcrin-chief of the army and navy to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether at any time, in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable...reserve to myself, and which I cannot feel justified in leaving«to the decision of commanders in the field." In July the President sought an interview with... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 pages
...necessity. This was his language: " Whether it be competent for me as commanderin-chief of the army and navy to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether at any time, in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the government to... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...declaration. "I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States...my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I can not feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field. These are totally different... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 534 pages
...declaring the act unauthorized and void, and announcing that he must reserve to himself to decide " whether at any time, or in any case, it shall have...of the Government to exercise such supposed power," he besought the slave States to consider, ere it was too late, Ante, pp. 47. the offer of Congress... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...I further make it known that whether it be compilent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether at any time, in any case it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the Government to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...declaration. I further make known that whether it be competent for me, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, to declare the slaves of any state or states...my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I can not feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field. These are totally different... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 738 pages
...iscommander-in-chief of the army and navy to declare ve slaves of any State or States free, and whether at •snv time or in any case it shall have become a necessity...under my responsibility I reserve to myself, and which 1 cannot feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the 6eld. These are totally différent... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
..."I further make it known that whether it be competent for me, as Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether at any time, in any case it shall have become a neces- CHAP. v. sity indispensable to the maintenance of the Government... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...declaration. I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States...indispensable to the maintenance of the Government to exercise sucV supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserv« i.; myself, and which... | |
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