 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 страници
...upon his monument than these In >i I) his last message ? "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... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 480 страници
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. 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... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 страници
...I retract nothing heretofore said. As to slavery I repeat the declaration made a year ago, and add 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 tlmt... | |
 | William James Potter - 1865 - 78 страници
...the president never recedes from that decree. " The promise," he says, " being made, must be kept." " 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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 страници
...1863, he referred to the success which had attended the proclamation of emancipation, and added, " 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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - 322 страници
...messages, and in referring to the success which had attended the proclamation of emancipation, he said : " 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... | |
 | Robert Blackley Drummond - 1865 - 18 страници
...that, in his message of January last, in reference to this point, Mr Lincoln used these words, — " While I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation." for the ground is full of such;" and now all the leading men are as much... | |
 | George Ware Briggs - 1865 - 62 страници
...be assassinated on the spot than surrender the principles of liberty;" and to declare, in 1863, 15 " 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 912 страници
...Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. 1 repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or mod-" ify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the... | |
 | 1865 - 398 страници
...determined to protect the men whom he had freed. " To abandon them now," he says, " would not only be to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and astounding breach of faith." He was a constant and self-sacrificing friend, and never allowed personal... | |
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I may add at this point 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 any of the acts... 
