 | William Livingstone - 1900 - 596 pagina’s
...return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that Proclamation, or by the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...re-enslave such persons, another and not I must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war... | |
 | William Albert Sinclair - 1905 - 382 pagina’s
...slavery any person who is free by the terms of that Proclamation or by any of the Acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." 47 Here is more than a veiled threat, it is an open defiance. Lincoln... | |
 | William Albert Sinclair - 1905 - 396 pagina’s
...slavery any person who is free by the terms of that Proclamation or by any of the Acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." 47 Here is more than a veiled threat, it is an open defiance. Lincoln... | |
 | Ernest Howard Crosby - 1905 - 156 pagina’s
...future Emancipator? He rose to a higher sense of his duties later when he told Congress in 1864 that "If the people should by whatever mode or means make...executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to enforce it." Resignation of office is surely the only course for... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 626 pagina’s
...slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say, that... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 700 pagina’s
...slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say, that... | |
 | John Henninger Reagan - 1906 - 370 pagina’s
...slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. The proclamation here referred to by President Lincoln was that of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pagina’s
...slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make...reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say, that... | |
 | 1906 - 336 pagina’s
...be forsaken by the Nation entire. " If the people should," these were his words to Congress in 1864, "by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty...re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." Such was Lincoln's integrity, far-seeing, brave, inflexible. As a... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1907 - 378 pagina’s
...for ending the war. As regards emancipation, he declared his purpose to retract nothing he had said. "If the people should by whatever mode or means make...another and not I must be the instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say, that the war will cease on the part of... | |
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I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by... 
