 | George Stillman Hillard - United States - 1865 - 416 pages
...urged to issue a proclamation of emancipation, ho distinctly declined it, saying, among other things, " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...Constitution in the rebel States ? Is there a single court or individual that would be influenced by it there ? And what reason is there to think it would have any... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...subject he gave utterance to the following opinion on what he termed the merits of the case : — ' What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...comet ! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot enforce the constitution in the rebel states ? Is there a single court, or magistrate, or individual... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. But we will talk over the merits of the case. (What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bttll against the comet! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. But we will talk over the merits of the case. "What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...document that the whole world will see must necessarily bo inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet ! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. But we will talk over the merits of the case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...to issue a document that the whole world will see mnst necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet ! Would my word free the slaves,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...evident sincerity uf those he was among in their prayers. But we wilt talk over the merits of the case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the wholo world will вее must necessitrily be inoperative, like the Popo'e bull against the cometí... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. Hut we will talk over the merits of the case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...now situated? I do not want to issue a document that tin; whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet!... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...purpose to take this step at the Cabinet meeting which I have described. He said to this committee : UI do not want to issue a document that the whole world...necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet!1' After drawing out their views upon the subject, he concluded the interview with these memorable... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. But we will talk over the merits of the case. " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...a single court, or magistrate, or individual that could be influenced by it there ? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater effect... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. But we wil] talk over the merits of the case. " What good would a proclamation of Emancipation from...against the comet. Would my word free the slaves, when I can not even enforce the Constitution'in the Rebel States ? Is there a single court, or magistrate,... | |
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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 ! Would my word free... 
