 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 190 strani
...ever join the latter in their proposed confederacy. I say " initiation " because, in my judgement, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all. In the mere financial or pecuniary view, any mem10 ber of Congress, with the census tables and treasury reports before him,... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 444 strani
...make it certain to the more Southern that in no event will the former ever join the latter in their proposed confederacy. I say "initiation" because,...emancipation is better for all. In the mere financial or pecuniary view any member of Congress, with the census tables and treasury reports before him, can... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - 1916 - 68 strani
...private letters urging the initiation of emancipation legislation. "I say 'initiation,' " he wrote, "because in my judgment gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all." On the 10th of March, he invited the Missourians and the other Members of Congress from border States... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1921 - 292 strani
...make it certain to the more Southern that in no event will the former ever join the latter in their proposed confederacy. I say "initiation" because,...emancipation is better for all. In the mere financial or pecuniary view, any member of Congress, with the census tables and the treasury reports before him,... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - 1921 - 1072 strani
...private letters urging the initiation of emancipa,/ tion legislation. "I say 'initiation/ " he wrote, "because in my judgment gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all." On the zoth of March, he invited the Missourians and the other Alembers of Congress from border States... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - 1921 - 1152 strani
...private letters urging the initiation of emancipation legislation. "I say 'initiation,' " he wrote, "because in my judgment gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all." On the loth of March, he invited the Missourians and the other Members of Congress from border States... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1925 - 564 strani
...rebuked Fremont and restrained Hunter, and said in his special message to Congress on March 6, 1862, "In my judgment, gradual, and not sudden emancipation is better for all." In this message he proposed to Congress that the United States should give pecuniary aid to any state... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1927 - 738 strani
...was a wise one. The money saved by shortening the war would more than meet the cost of emancipation. Any member of Congress with the census tables and treasury reports before him could see for himself how soon the current expense of war would buy all the slaves in any State, f... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 strani
...those who wanted the war to incorporate emancipation as one of its goals were dissatisfied as well. "In my judgment, gradual, and not sudden emancipation, is better for all," said Lincoln in his annual message to Congress on March 6. The Lincoln administration was gaining critics... | |
 | Edward L Ayers - 2004 - 500 strani
...catastrophic costs of uncompensated emancipation. Lincoln wanted the end of slavery to come slowly, for "in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all." Anyone who looked at the figures the government was spending on the war, he observed, could see that... | |
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States tolerating slavery would very soon, if at all, initiate emancipation, but that, while the offer is equally made to all, the more northern shall, by such initiation, make it certain to the more southern that in no event will the former ever join... 
