 | Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - History - 1996 - 674 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...July, or the first part of the month of August, 1862. This cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon a Saturday. All were present, excepting Mr. Blair, the... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 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...prepared the original draft of the Proclamation." 24 SUMMER 1862 "From time to time I added or changed a line, touching it up here and there, waiting... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 2004 - 196 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...consultation with, or the knowledge of the cabinet, 1 prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and after much anxious thought, called a cabinet... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 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...without consultation with or the knowledge of the Cabinets I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - Education - 2005 - 194 pages
...about played our last card and must change our tactics or lose the game; and without consultation or knowledge of the cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation. (Klingaman, 2001, p. 139) Throughout his deliberations over the matter of freeing the slaves, Lincoln... | |
 | Labor - 1912 - 608 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...thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. . . All were present except Mr. Blair, the Postmaster General, who was absent at the opening of the... | |
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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... 
