 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...as the phrase goes, it may be my duty to make some new announcement to the people of the South. 650 I am considering, and shall not fail to act, when satisfied that action will be proper. The story of one man's life in Washington on Good Friday, 1865, is told in the notes that follow. Grant,... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 242 pages
...Perhaps a new and tougher program was what Lincoln had in mind in the closing line of his last speech: "It may be my duty to make some new announcement to...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." He never got the chance to make an announcement. But given his position on reconstruction at war's... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...of his listeners had grown bored and drifted off elsewhere in search of more conventional oratory. "I am considering, and shall not fail to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." The meaning of that cryptic message puzzled his hearers, who guessed that he intended anything from... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...prescribed as to details and colatterals. Such an exclusive, and inflexible plan, would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may, and must,...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper. Phineas D. Gurley: 19 April 1865 The Sermon at Abraham Lincoln 's Funeral Dr Phineas D. Gurley, pastor... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...prescribed as to details and colatterals. 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. 37 Among the final visitors entertained at the White House, Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House,... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...colatterals." (Virginia was not mentioned.) In concluding, Lincoln said enigmatically that it might become his duty "to make some new announcement to the people...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." * In Washington and throughout the country the speech aroused much speculation about Lincoln's undisclosed... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...time "to make some new announcement to the people of the South." What it was, he would not say, but "I am considering, and shall not fail to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." He was being deliberately cryptic, but the fact that he was nurturing some "new" plan meant that neither... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely be come a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...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 - 2006 - 896 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. The change in the domestic situation, rendered it expedient to take new ground in regard to the concession... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...duty to make some new announcement to the people of the South. I am considering," he pointedly warned, "and shall not fail to act, when satisfied that action will be proper."29 In the audience was John Wilkes Booth. "That means nigger citizenship," Booth hissed to... | |
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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... 
