 | Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 516 страница
...There had been so many reverses in the war, that he feared the effect. "It may be viewed," he said, "as the last measure of an exhausted government, a...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government." He then suggested that the proclamation be not issued until it could be given to the country supported... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1904 - 298 страница
...to issue it just • then, when the Union armies appeared to be so pressed ; he feared that it would be viewed " as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help " ; he dreaded that it would be considered " as our last shriek on the retreat." Would it not be better... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 страница
...administration the fall elections. Seward pleaded for delay, saying, in substance : " Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the...reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so 1 Cnrui. Globe, p. 3322 et seq. » Ibid., p. 8394. important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 страница
...anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance : 'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the...important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure ef an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1907 - 414 страница
...offered.2 While approving the document, he urged that it ought not to be given out in a day of disaster. " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted...Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands to the Government ; — a shriek on the retreat." This suggestion... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1907 - 401 страница
...2 While approving the document, he urged that it ought not to be given out in a day of disaster. " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government, a cry for help;—the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1908 - 764 страница
...anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance: "'Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the...consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great thnt I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted... | |
 | Ester Singleton - 1908 - 598 страница
...anticipated and settled in my own mind, until Secretary Seward spoke. He said in substance, 'Mr. President, I approve of the § proclamation, but I question the...this juncture; the depression of the public mind, following upon recent reverses, might make it viewed as the last measure, a cry for help, — the government... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1913 - 410 страница
...offered.2 While approving the document, he urged that it ought not to be given out in a day of disaster. " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted...Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands to the Government ; — a shriek on the retreat." This suggestion... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1913 - 408 страница
...offered.2 While approving the document, he urged that it ought not to be given out in a day of disaster. " It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government, a cry for help;—the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, not Ethiopia stretching forth its hands... | |
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I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last... 
