 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 330 páginas
...shall I return to 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...means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 páginas
...shall I return to 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...means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1907 - 398 páginas
...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 it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another and not I must be the instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace,... | |
 | John Huston Finley, John Franklin Sanderson - 1908 - 372 páginas
...said, "return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or of any of the acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever...means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, ari1 But there was never a test of the validity of these acts in the courts. Cases intended... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 páginas
...when he goes wrong. Speech at Peoria, Ill. Oct. lt>, 1854, vol. II, p. 243. EMANCIPATION IRREVOCABLE If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons [negroes], another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. Annual Message to Congress,... | |
 | Benjamin Rush Cowen - 1909 - 72 páginas
...shall I return to 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...means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons another and not I must be their instrument to enforce it." I have no doubt he had Emancipation... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1909 - 40 páginas
...shall I return to 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 what-ever...means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." — Annual Message, December 6,... | |
 | United States. President - 1909 - 884 páginas
...person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress," and he adds: "If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive doty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." He concludes... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 704 páginas
...any of the Acts of Congress, and in his last Annual Message he repeated that declaration and said, "If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." Emancipation, which, in its inception,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 170 páginas
...shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or 5 by any of the acts of Congress." If the people should, by whatever...means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
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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... 
