 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...any person free by the terms of that instrument, or by any Act of Congress, — saying, grandly, " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it."2 It is sometimes said that the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 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... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 908 pages
...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...means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." On the 4th of March, 1861, President... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 930 pages
...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...means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." On the 4th of March, 1861, President... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 902 pages
...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...means, make it an executive duty to reenslave such persons, another, and not 1. must be their instrument to perform it." • On the 4th of March, 1861,... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 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 the instrument to perform it." In his second Inaugural Address,... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 800 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 the instrument to perform it." CREAT EVENTS DEVELOP GREAT MEN.... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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... 
