 | Abraham Lincoln - 1926 - 544 str.
...Seward spoke. He said in substance, "Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...so great that I fear the effect of so important a story. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1927 - 738 str.
...the midst of the period of gloom and depression through which the country was then passing, it might "be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government,...Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, ... a last shriek on •Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. vi, pp. 9, 91. May... | |
 | Honoré Morrow - 1927 - 428 str.
...following upon the greatest disasters of the war, and people will misunderstand. They will view it as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching her hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government; the last shriek... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - 1927 - 754 str.
...issue it just after the greatest disaster of the war; it would be "the government stretching forth her hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government"; the proclamation should be "borne on the bayonets of an advancing army, not dragged in the dust behind... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 str.
..."until you can give it to the country supported by military success." Otherwise the world might view it "as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help . . . our last shriek, on the retreat." The wisdom of this suggestion "struck me with very great force,"... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 str.
..."until you can give it to the country supported by military success." Otherwise the world might view it "as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help . . . our last shriek, on the retreat." The wisdom of this suggestion "struck me with very great force,"... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - 1994 - 492 str.
...Seward spoke. He said in substance: 'Mr. President, i approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its Issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mfnd, consequent upon our repeated reverses, Is so great that I fear the effect oi so Important a step.... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 str.
...at this particular moment, after the severe military reverses experienced by the Union armies, would "be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help." "His idea," Lincoln recalled later, "was that it would be considered our last shriek, on the retreat."... | |
 | Fletcher Pratt - 1997 - 466 str.
...expediency, however, the depression of the public mind consequent upon our recent reverses in the field is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It will be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted Government, a cry for help. Instead of Ethiopia... | |
 | Philip A. Klinkner, Rogers M. Smith - 2002 - 430 str.
...elections. Seward advised the president to wait for a Union victory, lest the proclamation be seen as the "last measure of an exhausted government, a...help, the government stretching forth its hands to the Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.'"19 Despite the fact... | |
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Mr. President, 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... 
