 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...  The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Página 619por Jefferson Davis - 1881 - 4 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Jefferson Davis - 1881 - 902 páginas
...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 act of Congress.' " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive duty... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1882 - 680 páginas
...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 of Congress. For these and other«reasous it is thought best that support of these... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - 1883 - 474 páginas
...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 of Congress. " If the people should, by whatever mode, or means, make it an Executive... | |
 | 1891 - 800 páginas
...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 of Congress. " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an executive... | |
 | Charles Maltby - 1884 - 340 páginas
...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 Acts of Congress. For these and other reasons it is thought best that support of these measures... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 páginas
...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 of Congress." Meantime, however, occurred the series of glorious Union victories in... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 páginas
...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 of Congress. For these and other reasons it is thought best that support of these measures... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 594 páginas
...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 of Congress." The President called attention to the fact that that part of the oath... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 586 páginas
...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 of Congress," and of his declaration that such action would be "a cruel and an astounding... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 454 páginas
...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 of Congress. For these and other reasons it is thought best that support of these measures... | |
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