 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 448 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory way. Hence there has never been in my mind any VI— 11 question upon the subject, except the one of expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances.... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1918 - 462 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution, in some satisfactory...expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances." Congress passed the enfranchisement of negroes in the District of Columbia. This, President Johnson,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1900 - 376 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the National Capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...circumstances. If there be matters within and about this Act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to my judgment, I do not attempt... | |
 | 1900 - 650 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the National Capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...circumstances. If there be matters within and about this Act .which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to my judgment, I do not attempt... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 236 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances." We are satisfied that while Mr. Lincoln signed the bill, he was not perfectly satisfied with it. That... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 strani
...signature on the evening of April 14, Lincoln dallied over it until the early morning of the sixteenth. "There has never been, in my mind, any question upon the subject, except the one of expediency," Lincoln explained. But he was troubled by a bill that had the good intention of wiping out slavery... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the National Capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...circumstances. If there be matters within and about this act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to my judgment, I do not attempt... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 706 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District ; and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...circumstances. If there be matters within and about this act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to my judgment, I do not attempt... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 844 strani
...authority of congress to abolish slavery in this District; and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...circumstances. If there be matters within and about this act, which might have taken a course or shape, more satisfactory to my judgment, I do not attempt... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1862 - 506 strani
...authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory...Hence there has never been in my mind any question on the subject except the one of expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances. If there be... | |
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I have never doubted the constitutional authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District; and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory way. Hence there has never been in my mind any question... 
