 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 1040 pages
...prudence, as well as the obligations of law, instead of transcending, I have adhered to the act of Congress to confiscate property used for insurrectionary...hence, all indispensable means must be employed. We shou'd not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which may reach the loyal as... | |
 | West (U.S.) - 1900 - 664 pages
...matter of perfectly free choice with them. In the annual message last December, I thought fit to say, "The Union must be preserved and hence all indispensable means must be employed." I said this not hastily; but deliberately. War has been and continues to be an indispensable means... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 492 pages
...to freeing the slaves of rebel owners. The tendency of his mind was indicated by his declaration : " The Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed ; " but his doubts found expression in the qualifying clause : " We should not be in haste to determine... | |
 | Charles Hallan McCarthy - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 566 pages
...choice. " In the annual message, last December," continued the President, " I thought fit to say, ' the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed.' I said this not hastily, but deliberately. War has been made and continues to be an indispensable means... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...which are not of vital military importance to the more deliberate action of the legislature. . . . The Union must be preserved ; and hence all indispensable...employed. We should not be in haste to determine that 21 radical and extreme measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the disloyal, are indispensable."... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...matter of perfectly free choice with them. In the annual message last December I thought fit- to say, "the Union must be preserved ; and hence all indispensable means must be employed." I said this not hastily, but deliberately. War has been made, and continues to be an indispensable... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...matter of perfectly free choice with them. In the annual message last December I thought fit to say, 'The Union must be preserved ; and hence, all indispensable means must be employed.' I said this, not hastily, but deliberately. War has been made, and continues to be, an indispensable... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...purchase at fair valuation all the slaves" in any State. Quoting from his December message the words, "the Union must be preserved; and hence all indispensable means must be employed," he added: "I said this not hastily, but deliberately." At his request a number of Senators and Representatives... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...matter of perfectly free choice with them. In the annual message, last December, I thought fit to say, " The Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed." I said this not hastily, but deliberately. War has been made, and continues to be, an indispensable... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...matter of perfectly free choice with them. In the annual message, last December, I thought fit to say, " The Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed." I said this not hastily, but deliberately. War has been made, and continues to be, an indispensable... | |
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National authority would render the war unnecessary, and it would at once cease. If, however, resistance continues, the war must also continue, and... 
