 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 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 excepting Mr. Blair, the Postmaster-General, who was absent at the opening of... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Presidents - 1902 - 476 pages
...friend afterwards. " We had played our last card and must change our tactics or lose the game ; and I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...prepared the original draft of the proclamation." On July 22, 1862, he read to his Cabinet the first draft of a proclamation, not for the purpose of... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1903 - 480 pages
...policy ; threw his refrom which and, after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting taken'-On'5 uPon the subject. This was the last of July, or the first part Lincoln, see of the month of August, 1862." (The exact date he did not ii°Vand be- remember.) " This... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 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... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 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. ... I said to the Cabinet that I had resolved upon this step, and had not called them together to ask... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 626 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 .... I said to the cabinet that I had resolved upon this step, and had not called them together to... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 1906 - 340 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. ... I said to the cabinet that I had resolved upon this step, and had not called them together to ask... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 606 pages
...pursuing.; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. 1 now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...thought, called a cabinet meeting upon the subject .... I said to the cabinet that I had resolved upon this step, and had not called them together to... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 pages
...the MIi1i , , .*-..>*.*-J-'•«:**"Jgi--MiVnr.j rw. jasft di^A.^- ^ rj-*na. ernancipationjojicy ; and, without consultation with, or the knowledge of,...thought called a cabinet meeting upon the subject. . . . All were present excepting Mr. Blair, the Postmaster-General, who was absent at the opening of... | |
 | David Homer Bates - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 450 pages
...in his "Six Months at the White House," p. 20 et seq., quotes from Lincoln's own account thus: "... I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...thought, called a cabinet meeting upon the subject, . . . The result was that I put the draft of the proclamation aside as you do your sketch for a picture,... | |
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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... 
