 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...good deal more earnestness, l fear, than our own troops, and expecting God to favor their side. . . . What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do,. especially as we are now situated? l do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like... | |
 | Simeon Davidson Fess - Political parties - 1910 - 466 pages
...of ministers from all the churches of Chicago, praying for emancipation, among other things he said: "What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? . . . Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds, for, as Commander-in-chief... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 336 pages
...with a committee from the religious denominations of Chicago, who came to plead with him for it: " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated?" he asked. "I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative,... | |
 | Joseph Beatty Doyle - Edwin McMasters Stanton Statue (Steubenville, Ohio) - 1911 - 542 pages
...as late as September 13, said to a visiting delegation: "What good would a proclamation from me do? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet" But on the 17th the battle of Antietam was... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 426 pages
...Proclamation, as he was also when he gave that disconcerting answer to the committee of Chicago clergymen : " I do not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet ! " " I asked him what was his policy," said the Prince de Joinville, telling of an interview he once... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - 1913 - 584 pages
...whole world will see must be of no more effect that the Pope's bull against the comet? Will my words free the slaves when I cannot even enforce the Constitution...there a single court or magistrate, or individual that will be influenced by it there? I approved the law of Congress which offers protection and freedom... | |
 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 774 pages
...immediate emancipation, in September, 1862, Lincoln found himself compelled to say: "I do not wish to issue a document that the whole world will see...there a single court, or magistrate, or individual there that would be influenced by it?" But his reply to Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, best expressed... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1927 - 738 pages
...others on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed He would reveal it directly to me. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...are now situated? I do not want to issue a document which the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative like the Pope's Bull against the comet.... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 526 pages
...others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed He would reveal it directly to me. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...inoperative like the Pope's Bull against the comet. Do not misunderstand me, because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...withheld his blow against slavery. To an abolition memorial from Chicago, he replied on September 13: "What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet!" Just four days later, however, Lee's advance was checked at the bloody battle of Antietam, and Lincoln... | |
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What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. 
