 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 460 pages
...these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable withal, that I deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses...affections. That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will... | |
 | Howard Cecil Perkins - Secession - 1964 - 644 pages
...down as current events and experience may seem to demand, always acting, as he says, "with a view and hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles...restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections." We think that if Mr. LINCOLN'S avowals of the policy which he proposes to pursue in reference to the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...discretion will be exercised according to the circumstances actually existing, and •with a view and hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles,...affections. That there are persons, in one section or another, who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable with all, that I deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses...affections. That there are persons in one section, or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...offices, the attempt to do 59 would be so irritating. and so nearly impracticable with all, that 1 deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses of...affections. That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 pages
..."to force obnoxious strangers among the people." His policies, Lincoln declared, would be carried out "with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of...restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections." "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen," Lincoln concluded, directing his remarks to the... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of...affections. That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised, according to circumstances actually exisnng and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution...affections. That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will... | |
 | Michael E. Latham - Political Science - 2000 - 308 pages
...variety of suggestions Seward had made to give the speech a more conciliatory tone. The vow to seek "a peaceful solution of the national troubles, and...restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections" used Seward's exact phraseology. Seward also inspired Lincoln's eloquent peroration, telling southerners,... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of...affections. That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will... | |
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That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love... 
