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" I have got you together to hear what I have written down. - I do not wish your advice about the main matter — for that I have determined for myself. "
Annual Report of the American Historical Association - Page 90
by American Historical Association - 1903
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Abraham Lincoln; the Tribute of a Century, 1809-1909: Commemorative of the ...

Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 664 pages
...chapter from Artemus Ward. He said, "I made the promise to myself and to my Maker that I would do this. I do not wish your advice about the main matter, for that I have determined for myself" — and read the immortal document which freed the slave. His sense of destiny was not fatalism, but...
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Is the Negro Making Good?: Or, Have Fifty Years of History Vindicated the ...

Bishop Charles Edward Locke - 1913 - 78 pages
...draft of the Proclamation to them: "Now I am going to fulfill the promise I made to myself and my God. I have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter, for that I have determined for myself." 8 "Of One Blood" Athens was like an emerald in a setting of alabaster when Paul stood upon the flinty...
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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 23

American Antiquarian Society - 1913 - 474 pages
...driven out of Maryland," he said, "and I am going to fulfill the promise I made to myself and my God. I have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter; for that I have determined for myself. "l He read his great proclamation of freedom: "On the first day of January in the year of our Lord...
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Lectures on the American Civil War: Delivered Before the University of ...

James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 240 pages
...driven out of Maryland, he said, and I am going to fulfil the promise I made to myself and to my Maker. "I have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter ; for that I have determined for myself." He read then his proclamation of freedom : " On the first day of January in the year of our Lord one...
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Lectures on the American Civil War: Delivered Before the University of ...

James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 234 pages
...going to fulfil the promise I made to myself and to my Maker. " I 128 PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter ; for that I have determined for myself." He read then his proclamation of freedom : " On the first day of January in the year of our Lord one...
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The Story of the United States

Marie Louise Herdman - 1916 - 546 pages
...document himself, and then read it aloud to the members of his Cabinet, characteristically remarking, "I have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter ; for that I have determined for myself." He then read: "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves" (in the States or any part of...
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History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 540 pages
...driven out of Maryland," he said, and I am going to fulfil the promise I made to myself and my God. "I have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter ; for that I have determined for myself." He then read his proclamation of freedom: "On the first day of January, 1863, all persons held as slaves...
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History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 532 pages
...am going to fulfil the promise 174 PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION [1862 I made to myself ajid my God. "I have got you together to hear what I have written...main matter ; for that I have determined for myself." He then read his proclamation of freedom: "On the first day of January, 1863, all persons held as slaves...
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Abraham Lincoln

Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 296 pages
...am going to fulfil the promise I made to myself and" — hesitating — "to my Maker. I have gotten you together to hear what I have written down; I do not wish your adBurnside Bridge, Antietam. vice about the main thing, for that I have determined for myself." Then...
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Factors in American History

Albert Frederick Pollard - 1925 - 330 pages
...from New Year's QayjJ^g^jilavery jn rebellious jtates. "I do not wish," he said to his Cabinet, 52 "your advice about the main matter; for that I have determined for myself." He justified it as a "measure otherwise unconstitutional" which had "become lawful by becoming indispensable...
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