 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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...proposed, its propriety will be duly considered. The Uniob must be preserved ; and hence all indispensable means must be employed. We should not be in haste... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Legislators - 1900 - 502 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... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...perfectly free choice with them. In the annual Mes* sage, 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 indispensaDle means... | |
 | Moore - United States - 1865 - 828 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 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 - American literature - 1862 - 506 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 means... | |
 | American Society for the Extension of University Teaching - 1895 - 264 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... | |
 | Gerhard Leibholz - Law - 1967 - 652 pages
...considered »the integrity of the Union prominent as the primary object of the contest«. Feeling that »[t]he Union must be preserved, and hence, all indispensable means must be 108 Rossiter, Constitutional Dictatorship 224, writes of Lincoln's thinking: »There was something... | |
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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... 
