 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...Proclamation or of any Act of Congress would be returned to slavery while he held the executive authority. " If the people should by whatever mode or means make...executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." This last 428 429 sentence was no meaningless flourish;... | |
 | 1865 - 728 pages
...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 of Congress. "...persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to propose it. " In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1864 - 934 pages
...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 of Congress."...Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...Slavery any person who is free by the terms of that Proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.1 black and white, provided with capacious bags, boskets, tubs, buckets, tin pans, and aprons; cursing, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. " In stating a single condition of peace, I mean... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 752 pages
...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 of Congress. "...persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to propose it. " In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 728 pages
...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 of Congress. "...persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to propose it. " In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 878 pages
...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 of Congress."...executive duty to ree'nslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 pages
...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 of Congress. If...executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 506 pages
...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 of Congress. '....Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. " In stating a single condition of peace, I mean... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 pages
...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 of Congress. If...Executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply... | |
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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 by... 
