...to take.' " It was only a few days before this meeting that Lincoln had told the ministers he did " not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." To the same men he had said : — " I admit that slavery is the root of the rebellion, or at least...

...* Carpenter, 22; 3 Seward, 118. Lincoln himself, a little later, oddly expressed a similar thought: "I do not want to issue a document that the whole...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." — 6 Nicolay and Hay, 155. Contrary to what has heretofore been believed, Seward was so fearful of...

...8 Seward, 118. Lincoln himself, a little later, oddly expressed a similar thought : "I do not waut to issue a document that the whole world will see...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet."— 6 Nicolay and Hay, 155. 335 Contrary to what has heretofore been believed, Seward was so fearful of...

...Lincoln himself, a little later, oddly expressed a similar thought : "I do not want to issue a documeut that the whole world will see must necessarily be...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." — 6 Nicolay and Hay, 155. 885 Contrary to what has heretofore been believed, Seward was so fearful...

...However, he would discuss the merits of the case and asked pointedly : sarily be inoperative. . . . Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even...or individual that would be influenced by it there ? " He admitted to his visitors, however, that he raised no objections to such a proclamation as they...

...called upon him at the White House not long before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, said: "I do not want to issue a document that the whole...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." COULD HE TELL? A "high" private of the One Hundred and Fortieth Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,...

...on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me. . . . What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. . . . Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds, for, as commander-in-chief...

...if I cannot enforce the Constitution down South, how can I enforce a mere Presidential proclamation? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative like the Pope's Bull against the comet." Mr. Colfax, who accompanied the delegation, says that " one of these ministers felt it his duty to...

...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 I can not even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ? Is there a single court, or magistrate,...

...to the Cabinet meeting, President Lincoln thus answered the delegation of clergymen from Chicago : " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from...not want to issue a document that the whole world would see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free...