| American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.' Here two things are made perfectly clear, the personal wish and the official duty.... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according lo my view of official duty ; and 1 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. When Mr. Lincoln wrote the foregoing letter the defeat of General... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have hero stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Tours, A. LINCOLN. It was impossible to mistake the President's meaning after this letter,... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men, every-where, could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Although the proclamation of Emancipation had been prepared sometime... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...appear to be true views. "I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty; and 1 could be free. Yours, A. LWCOLX." Many others called on or wrote to the President about this time,... | |
| Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...as fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose, according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish, that all men everywhere could be free.'* This letter sufficiently defines the object of the Government as represented by its... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Such appeals as that to which Mr. Lincoln replied in the foregoing... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men, every-where, could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Although the proclamation of Emancipation had been prepared sometime... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oftexpressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Address at Gettysburg, NOVEMBER 19, 1863. 1 Fourscore and seven years... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...views so fast as they shall appear to he true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of...oft-expressed personal wish that all men, every-where, could bo free. Yours, A. LINCOLN. Although the proclamation of Emancipation had been propared sometime... | |
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