 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...which embraced the restoration of peace, integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, would be received and considered by the Executive of the government of the... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Presidential announcement: " EXECUTIVE MANSION, " WASHINGTON, July 18, 1864. " To whom it may concern: Slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the Armies now at War against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 928 pages
...integrity c * 2 Haggard's Reports, p. 94. the whole country, and the abandonment of slavery, and which came by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States" It was seen that the emancipation of individual slaves, even of all individual... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...instructions carried by Major Hay, the exact attitude of the President. These were in the following form : " To whom it may concern : " Any proposition which embraces...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...WASHINGTON, DC, \ " July 18, 1804. | " To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : — " Any propositions which embrace the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1889 - 504 pages
...Confederates, and which was given them by Mr. John Hay, one of his private secretaries : " To WHOM IT MAT CONCERN : " Any proposition which embraces the restoration...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...President's own handwriting, expressed in these words : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 18, 1864. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be reAppieton*s ceived and considered by the Executive Government of... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 586 pages
...President's own handwriting, expressed in these words : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 18, 1864. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be reAppieton'8 ceived and considered by the Executive Government of... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...paper from the President, addressed " To whom it may concern," promising to " receive and consider any proposition which embraces the restoration of...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States." Third, an indignant letter published by the Niagara conferees— who only... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...not an order. A. LINCOLN. ' To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Executive Mansion, Washington, DC, July 18, 1864. Any proposition which embraces the restoration of...an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United... | |
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To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States,... 
