| Jeffrey Danhoff - Poetry - 2005 - 114 pages
...Lincoln entered a special line right in the Proclamation specifically to warn against such actions. "...And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense." Lincoln was taking no chances and as we now know in the end he must have realized that... | |
| Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...the people so declared to "be free, to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense, and I recommend to them, that in all cases, when allowed,...they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I farther declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed... | |
| InterLingua.com, Incorporated - Social Science - 2006 - 361 pages
...shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain...self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable... | |
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