 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 580 страници
...have aided and will further aid the cause for which they CHAP.V. were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power,...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 594 страници
...have aided and will further aid the cause for which they CHAP.V. were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power,...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... | |
 | Richard N. Current - 1958 - 326 страници
...took back nothing he previously had said regarding 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 520 страници
...and will further aid, the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would not only be to relinquish a lever of power,, but would also be a cruel and astounding breach of faith. . . For these and other reasons it is thought best that support of these... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - 1914 - 232 страници
...position regarding Emancipation, in the following language : "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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 страници
...they have aided, and will further aid, the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power,...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 H. Abzug, Stephen E. Maizlish - 1986 - 324 страници
...supported the emancipation of slaves, Lincoln offered additional assurance in his December message: "While I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation." The radical clergyman Henry Wright wrote the president: "God bless thee... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 страници
...Congress, he vowed that he would not "retract the emancipation proclamation; nor, as executive, ever return to slavery any person who is free by the terms...proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress." Could such treachery, he asked, "escape the curses of Heaven, or of any good man?" 52 By the summer... | |
 | Andrew Kull - 2009 - 322 страници
...abolitionist fears of a possible revocation of the Emancipation Proclamation with an express pledge that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation." The message contained, in addition, a gentle endorsement of further emancipation... | |
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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... 
