 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 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 it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." This last 428 429 sentence was... | |
 | History - 1865 - 728 pages
...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...means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to propose it. " In stating a single condition of... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1864 - 934 pages
...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...means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 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; persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. " In stating a single condition... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1865 - 752 pages
...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...means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to propose it. " In stating a single condition of... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...shall A 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...means, make it an Executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...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...means, make it an executive duty to ree'nslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...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...means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. "In stating a single condition... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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...means, make it an Executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...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...means, make it an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument, to perform it. In stating a single condition... | |
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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... 
