 | United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 1546 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 páginas
...the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would be, not only to relinquish a lever power, but would also be a cruel and an astounding...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... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1873 - 1024 páginas
...proclamation . In a message to the Federal Congress, he said : "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 the... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - 1874 - 318 páginas
...declaration, " 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...that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress." This is not the occasion to inquire into the intrinsic merits of his plan of reconstruction. It is... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - 1874 - 320 páginas
...enacted and put forth for the purpose of aiding in the suppression of the rebellion. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power,...also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith." And this was followed by the pointed declaration, " While I remain in my present position I shall not... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1874 - 820 páginas
...proclamation. In a message to the Federal congress, he said: "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 emancipaiion proclamation; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 674 páginas
...said, " 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 Howland - 1877 - 848 páginas
...movements to the same end had been made in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The message concluded : " 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... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1880 - 680 páginas
..." 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 proclanii!tion, or by any of the Acts of Congress. For these and other reasons, it is thought best... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - 1881 - 908 páginas
...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...free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any act of Congress.' "If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty to reenslave... | |
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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... 
