 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.  A Study of Greatness in Men - Page 273by Josephus Nelson Larned - 1911 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...direction. To a delegation of clergymen from Chicago, who urged the measure upon him, he replied : — " I do not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." After some discussion, however, he assured them that "the subject was upon his mind night and day,... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1883 - 648 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 will sec must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free the... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Emancipation advocated in the Memorial, and his intimation that a Proclamation of Emancipation issued by him " must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's Bull against the Comet!" — would almost seem to have been adopted with the very object of veiling his real purpose from the public eye,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...now situated? I do not want to issue a document which the whole world will see must necessarily be like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word...slaves when I cannot even enforce the Constitution ?" There were warm debates in Congress. Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, had voted against Mr. Lincoln,... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
...now, too, he publicly announced that he "did not want to issue a document which the whole world would see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet." It is true that he had previously sketched "the rough draft " of an emancipation proclamation, but... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 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...there a single court, or magistrate, or individual tint would be influenced by it there ? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 282 pages
...of activity or of effect ; inert : as, laws rendered inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies. I do not want to issue a document that the whole world...inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet ! Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 213. inopercular (in-o-per'ku-lar), a. [< i'n-3 + opercular.] Same as inoperculate.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 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...even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States T Is there a single court, or magistrate, or individual that would be influenced by it there? And what... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 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...Pope's bull against the comet. Would my word free thg slaves when I can not even enforce the Constitution in the rebel states? Is there a single court... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 800 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 I Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States ?... | |
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