| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 758 pages
...some length, the grounds of his apprehensions. He disclaimed most expressly, however, all objections to emancipation per se, saying he had always been...rather than submit to the perpetuation of the system. J . W. Schuckers, Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1874).... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 772 pages
...some length, the grounds of his apprehensions. He disclaimed most expressly, however, all objections to emancipation per se, saying he had always been...rather than submit to the perpetuation of the system. JW Schuckers, Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1874),... | |
| Salmon Portland Chase - 1993 - 894 pages
...proposed. Mr. Blair then said that the question having been decided, he would make no objection to issuing the Proclamation; but he would ask to have his paper,...rather than submit to the perpetuation of the system. After this matter was over, I stated to the Cabinet that it had been strongly recommended that all... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 pages
...the Border States and on the Army." But if this was the only way to rid the nation of slavery, better "immediate Emancipation in the midst of Slave States,...rather than submit to the perpetuation of the system." No one, curiously, questioned Lincoln's "authority on this subject." Even more curiously, no one thought... | |
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