 | 1907 - 638 pages
...president himself. To Mr. Greely's editorial "petition" Mr. Lincoln thought proper to make public reply: "As to the policy I seem to be pursuing as you say," he wrote, "I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. If there be those who... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1913 - 354 pages
...August, in answer to an open letter of Horace Greeley, the Editor of the New York Tribune, Lincoln said2: As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not left any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution.... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 pages
...not now and here argue against them. 2 The American Conflict. By Horace Greeley. Vol. II, pp. 249-50. "If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial...to the policy I 'seem to be pursuing,' as you say, 1 have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1032 pages
...controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible...in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it...in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer... | |
 | Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it...in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible...you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. 495 I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...believe to be falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable [sic] in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it...friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. [SW 2.357-58] Obviously, Lincoln did not agree with the aspersions on his character; but those were... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...that Greeley believed had been written before his editorial had appeared (Horner 275). 23 AUGUST 1862 I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer... | |
 | Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...Greeley, did just that, but noticeably left out any reference to an emancipation proclamation:4 . . .As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The... | |
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seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 
