 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 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... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1922 - 660 pages
...Education of an American Citizen- --The Main Issue EDWARD O. SISSON Reed Caliese, Port/unit, Oregon The Union must be preserved: and hence all indispensable means must be employed. — Abraham Lincoln, in his Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861. OF THE FUTURE we may be sure... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Presidents - 1922 - 510 pages
...slavery question except the admonition — so unsatisfactory to Chandler and all his sort — that while "the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed," Congress should "not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which may reach the... | |
 | Anna Maria Rose Wright - Determination (Personality trait) - 1925 - 472 pages
...and its people immediately interested. It is proposed as a matter of perfectly free choice to them. "The Union must be preserved and hence all indispensable means must be employed. War has been made and continues to be an indispensable means to this end. Upon acceptance of this national... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1925 - 674 pages
...Charles H. Wesley in the Journal of Negro History, iv, 243. the slaves freed by its provisions, added "The Union must be preserved ; and hence all indispensable means must be employed." But he added there should be no haste in determining the extreme measures that are indispensable. It... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 672 pages
...obligations of law, instead of transcending I have adhered to the act of Congress to confiscate property, and for insurrectionary purposes. If a new law upon the...considered. The Union must be preserved, and hence all dispensable means must be employed. We should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme... | |
 | 1921 - 690 pages
...Education of an American Citizen- --The Main Issue EDWARD O. SISSON Reed College, PcrtlanJ, Oregon The Union must be preserved: and hence all indispensable means must be employed. — Abraham Lincoln, in his Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861. OF THE FUTURE we may be sure... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...in which he had warned against the danger of remorseless revolutionary struggle, he had also said: "The Union must be preserved, and hence, all indispensable means must be employed."11 In his message of March 6 on gradual emancipation he reminded Congress of those words,''1... | |
 | John Syrett - History - 2005 - 308 pages
...more deliberate action of the legislature." As for legislation, he had "adhered" to the first act, and if "a new law upon the same subject shall be proposed, its propriety will be duly considered." He had done nothing to enforce the first act, as we have seen, nor had he tried to prevent its implementation.... | |
 | Jerrold M. Packard - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 326 pages
...of December, Lincoln sent his formal annual message to the Congress, serving that body notice that "the Union must be preserved, and hence, all indispensable means must be employed," and prophesying that "the struggle of today is not altogether for today — it is for a vast future... | |
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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... 
