 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 pages
.... What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do,. especially as we are now situated? l do not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free the slaves when l cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? ls there... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie Marquis - 1907 - 512 pages
...him for his attitude, but he went on his way awaiting the right moment. " I do not want," he said, " to issue a document that the whole world will see...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... | |
 | Simeon Davidson Fess - 1910 - 466 pages
...said: "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...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? . .... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 190 pages
...case. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from 10 me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world...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... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1911 - 336 pages
...good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated?" he asked. "I do not want to issue a document that the whole...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... | |
 | Julia Mygatt Powell - 1921 - 106 pages
...clergymen called upon him, urging him to take this step. After listening to their arguments, he said : "I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must be inoperative, like the 'Pope's Bull against the Comet.' I have not decided against a proclamation... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - 1923 - 266 pages
...* * * 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...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... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1925 - 564 pages
...sort : 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...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free the slav.es, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? Is... | |
 | Charles Baumer Swaney - 1926 - 380 pages
...utility. "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...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 - 1927 - 474 pages
...case. 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...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. 
