 | John Thomas Bell - United States - 1903 - 222 pages
...views as they shall appear to be new views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of my official duty and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." When Mr. Greeley suggested to the President, in July, 1864, that in his opinion peace could be restored... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...as fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere be free.28 This is the highest art, which conceals itself. The opening sentences perform the classical... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
...object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. ... I have stated my purpose according to my view of official...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. A little more than four months later, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and less than a year... | |
 | William Hanchett - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 172 pages
...Lincoln concluded this brilliantly crafted letter by stating it gave his view of his official duty. "I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." On September 17, McClellan stopped Lee's invasion of the North at Antietam, Maryland, and the strategic... | |
 | Robert Charles Smith - Social Science - 1996 - 420 pages
...appear to be true views — I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and 1 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. — Abraham Lincoln (1862) From Protest to Incorporation: A Framework for Analysis of Civil Rights... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 592 pages
...the Union; and what I forebear, I forebear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I have here stated my purpose according to my view...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. This pragmatic approach to the root cause of the rebellion is curious on several counts. First, Lincoln's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...editor Horace Creeley. However, Lincoln added, "I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty and I intend no modification of my...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." Sleep 1 We term sleep a death ... by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Greeley I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty and I intend no modificatlon e, ... ...Thy Naiad airs have brought me home, To the glory that was Gre 6363 With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...I would also do that ... 1 have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty and 1 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. letter to Horace Greelcy, 22 August 18(12, in RP Basler (ed.) Collected Works ... ( 195 }) vol. s 12... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...cause.426 Lincoln concluded this statement — an open letter to Horace Greeley — with the assurance, "I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free."427 It should be noticed that Lincoln's flexibility, in his effort to save... | |
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Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall... 
