 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 800 pages
...do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet I Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ?... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...his reply to their address, he said : " I do not wish to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. . . . Do not misunderstand me, because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet I Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? Is... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...a document that the whole 1 For views contrary to mine, see Julian, Polit. Recoil., 221. world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? Is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet ! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ?... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 684 pages
...society, who were urging immediate action : "1 do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the pope's bull against the comet. ... I view this matter as a practical war measure, to be decided on according to the advantages or... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...do, especially as we are now situated t I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution 'in the rebel States f Is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ? Is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...this step. He said to this committee: "I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! " After drawing out their views upon the subject, he concluded the interview with these memorable words:... | |
 | Peter Thomas Stanford - African Americans - 1897 - 298 pages
...in a characteristic speech. He said : " I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's Bull against the Comet. Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the Rebel States? Is... | |
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What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet... 
