 | Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 270 pages
...especially as we are now situated ? 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....even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States?" Mr. Lincoln was in great straits ; the border States, and the party more or less in sympathy with them,... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 882 pages
...do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world would see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's...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,... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...this, he recapitulated the arguments which might be advanced against the measure, and asked : — " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? " He continued : " I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 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...against the comet. Would my word free the slaves, when 1 cannot even enforce the Constitution in the Rebel States ? Is there a single court, or magistrate,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...direction. To a delegation of clergymen from Chicago, who urged the measure upon him, he replied : — " I do not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." After some discussion, however, he assured them that "the subject was upon his mind night and day,... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1883 - 648 pages
...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...want to issue a document that the whole world will sec must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free the... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Emancipation advocated in the Memorial, and his intimation that a Proclamation of Emancipation issued by him " must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's Bull against the Comet!" — would almost seem to have been adopted with the very object of veiling his real purpose from the public eye,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...ministers from Chicago. " What good," Mr. Lincoln said to them, " would a proclamation of emancipation do as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document which the whole world will see must necessarily be like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
...now, too, he publicly announced that he "did not want to issue a document which the whole world would see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." It is true that he had previously sketched "the rough draft " of an emancipation proclamation, but... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...the days of miracles, and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation. 1 must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain...there a single court, or magistrate, or individual tint would be influenced by it there ? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater... | |
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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. 
