 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game ! I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...meeting upon the subject. This was the last of July, 1862. This Cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon a Saturday. All were present, excepting Mr. Blair,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 394 pages
...four millions of slaves became free men, and slavery disappeared from the continent. or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting on the subject. This was the last of July or the first part of the month of August, 1862. I said to... | |
 | John Sherman - Currency question - 1895 - 722 pages
...pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, (329) and must change our tactics, or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...prepared the original draft of the proclamation." Of the cabinet, Blair deprecated this policy on the ground that it would cost the administration the... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...knowledge of the cabinet, I prepared the original draft of a proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a cabinet meeting upon the subject. This was... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...knowledge of the cabinet, I prepared the original draft of a proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a cabinet meeting upon the subject. This was... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...part of the month of August, 1862." [The exact date was July 22, 1862.] . . . "All were present excepting Mr. Blair, the Postmaster-General, who was absent... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...part of the month of August, 1862. [The exact date was July 22, 1862.] . . . All were present excepting Mr. Blair, the Postmaster-General, who was absent... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...part of the month of August, 1862. [The exact date was July 22, 1862.] . . . All were present excepting Mr. Blair, the Postmaster-General, who was absent... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1899 - 478 pages
...pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game ! I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, By FRANCIS BICKNELL CARPENTER (183o- ), a portraitpainter, who has had many distinguished sitters.... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy ; and without consultation with, or knowledge of, the cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and after much anxious... | |
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Things had gone on from bad to worse until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope on the plan of operations we had been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the... 
