...is required to win the war.77 Lincoln further explained the Proclamation by stating: Things had gone from bad to worse, until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope on the plan we were pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game....

...front, he showed the draft to the Cabinet on 22 July. 22 JULY 1862 "It had got to be midsummer, 1862. Things had gone on from bad to worse, until I felt...card, and must change our tactics or lose the game! I now determined upon the adoption of the Emancipation policy; and, without consultation with, or the...

...the declining military situation soon led Lincoln to look to more radical action. He later explained, "Things had gone on from bad to worse, until I felt...last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game!"'1' Rather than lose, on July 13 Lincoln informed Secretary of State Seward and Secretary of...

...this game leaving any available card unplayed." * " It had got to be midsummer, 1862: Things had gone from bad to worse. until I felt that we had reached...card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game!"* All these examples belong to the same period and refer to the same subject. The figure of the ship...

...garrisons and troop supply lines. Lincoln had something of the same epiphany that spring. "Things had gone from bad to worse, until I felt that we had reached...rope on the plan of operations we had been pursuing," Lincoln told Francis Carpenter, "that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics,...

...Lincoln said, "Things had gone from bad to worse, until I had reached the end of our rope on the plan we had been pursuing, that we had about played our...card, and must change our tactics or lose the game." When the Confederate states of the South let the deadline of January 1, 1863, pass without complying,...

...been until now. "It had got to be midsummer, 1862," Lincoln told Francis Carpenter. "Things had gone from bad to worse, until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope," and after Pope's "disaster, at Bull Run . . . things looked darker than ever." Nothing had turned out...

...Union policy better than Lincoln. "Things had gone on from bad to worse," he explained subsequently, "until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope...card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game!" For several weeks he had been preparing a draft of a proclamation that would emancipate the slaves....

...willing to turn the cause toward freeing the slaves. Things had gone from bad to worse . . . until I felt we had reached the end of our rope on the plan of...card and must change our tactics or lose the game; and without consultation or knowledge of the cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation....

...freedom. Such were the risks; but Lincoln nevertheless resolved to play his trump. "I felt," he said, "that we had reached the end of our rope on the plan...card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game." Seward, however, urged him to proceed cautiously. The Secretary of State, studying the diplomatic dispatches,...