 | Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 168 páginas
...any person free by the terms of that instrument, or by any of the acts of Congress, saying, loftily, "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." It was sometimes said that the Proclamation... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1865 - 436 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 mode or means, make it au executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 páginas
...Message to Congress this year, of slaves who had been liberated under his proclamations, said, " If tho people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to ro-onslavo such persons, another, not I, must bo their instrument to propose it." Similarly, it would... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 836 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 reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. " In stating a single condition... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 804 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 reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. " In stating a single condition... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 páginas
...any person free by the terms of that instrument, or by any of the acts of Congress, saying loftily, '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.' " It was sometimes said that the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1867 - 848 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 mode or means, make it an Executive duty to rëenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. " In elating a... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 558 páginas
...promise, being made, must be kept,"2 — and then again exclaimed, loftily, in words good to repeat, " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to ree'nslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it."8 All this was beautiful and grand.... | |
 | Theodore Tilton - 1870 - 340 páginas
...above * Hia first inaugural. t Three years afterward, he wrote in another message these words : " Tf 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." praise. In a hurried note, whose... | |
 | Theodore Tilton - 1870 - 350 páginas
...above » His first inaugural. t Three year? afterward, he wrote in another message these words : " Tf the people should- by whatever mode or means- make it an executive duty to re-em-lave such persons, another, and not I, must be the instrument to perform it.'' praise. In a hurried... | |
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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... 
