 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...must bo inflexible. In the present situation, as the phrase goes, it may be my duty to make some now announcement to the people of the South. I am considering,...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper. The surrender of Lee changed the -whole aspect of the war, and enabled the President to place matters... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...situation, as the phrase goes, it may be my duty to make some twin announcement to theptople of Ihe South. I am considering and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper." The President, during the delivery of the above speech, was frequently interrupted by applause, and... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...goes, it may be my duty to make some new announcement to the people of tho South. I am considering, aud shall not fail to act, when satisfied that action will be proper. The Change in the domestic situation, rendered it expedient to take new ground in regard to the concession... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...... No exclusive and inflexible plan can safely be prescribed as to details and collaterals, . . . Important principles may, and must be, inflexible....to act when satisfied that action will be proper." When we consider that only three days later (April 14th) the speaker met his tragic deathstroke, we... | |
 | Emily Hazen Reed - New Orleans (La.) - 1868 - 392 pages
...inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important. principles may and must be inflexible. I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper." i The news of the surrender of Lee and his army made the peace loving masses of New Orleans shout for... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." ASSASSINATION. Four days after this speech, April 14, while seated in a private box at Ford's Theater... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1886 - 778 pages
...in the rebellious States, and, unable to speak as fully as he desired, said with evident emotion, " It may be my duty to make some new announcement to...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." The "new announcement" to the South was never made. Three days after it was promised, Mr. Lincoln met... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may, and must,...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." On the same day the President issued a proclamation opening the ports of the South to general commerce,... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...last public address, made only four days before his death, he said : " It may be my duty to make some announcement to the people of the South. I am considering...fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper ; " but he was assassinated within a week after Lee's surrender, and Andrew Johnson became President.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 584 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." CHAPTER XX THE MARCH TO THE SEA CHAP. xx. O HERMAN saw that it was not worth while to k3 attack Hood's... | |
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State, and such important and sudden changes occur in the same State, and withal so new and unprecedented is the whole case that no exclusive and inflexible plan can safely be prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan... 
