 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...dismissed that question as "a merely pernicious abstraction" and went on to declare: "We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their...again get them into that proper practical relation." He had been criticized also for setting up and sustaining the new state government of Louisiana, which... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...Selected Essays, p. 202. 293 In a speech just a few days before his assassination, Lincoln explained that "the sole object of the government, civil and military, in regard to those States," is to get them back into "their proper practical relation with the Union."5 With regard to the state government... | |
 | John David Cox - Social Science - 2010 - 266 pages
...his "Speech on Reconstruction," given within days of the end of the war, Lincoln states, We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their...them into that proper practical relation. I believe it is not only possible, but in fact, easier, to do this, without deciding, or even considering, whether... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their...regard to those States, is to again get them into their proper practical relation. I believe that it is not only possible, but, in fact, easier, to do... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...last to accept their logic and would no longer stand in their way. Listen to his words: "We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their...them into that proper practical relation. I believe it is not only possible, but in fact, easier, to do this, without deciding, or even considering, whether... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so-called, are out of their proper practical relation with the...them into that proper practical relation. I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding, or even considering, whether... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their...them into that proper practical relation. I believe it is not only possible, but in fact, easier, to do this, without deciding, or even considering, whether... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their...regard to those States, is to again get them into their proper practical relation. I believe that it is not only possible, but, in fact, easier, to do... | |
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We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the Government, civil and military, in regard to those States is to again get them into that proper practical relation. 
