 | Russell Frank Weigley - 2000 - 662 str.
...of the current series of military defeats, it "would be considered the last shriek of the retreat," the government "stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government. ... 1 suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country supported by military... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 str.
...until a later time to issue it, however, since it might appear in the light of recent military defeats as 'the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help." So Lincoln decided to wait for a military victory to issue the document, and Antietam was it. He had... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2002 - 224 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 shreik, on the retreat."67 The wisdom of this suggestion "struck me with very great... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 str.
...the Mississippi were mired in occupation duties. An emancipation proclamation at this moment would "be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help" — for a bloody slave insurrection, for John Brown and for the butchery of Southern civilians on their... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 str.
...proclamation," but also like Bates, he had a condition to offer — not about its terms but about its timing. "The depression of the public mind, consequent upon...great that I fear the effect of so important a step," Seward explained (in what Stanton's notes described as "a long speech"). He did not mean by that the... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 str.
...lacked the power to win the war. This decree would, Seward said, playing on a biblical simile, look like "the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia,...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government" or like a "last shriek on the retreat." As such, the European empires would read it as an incitement... | |
 | Robert Cowley - 2004 - 324 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." This advice persuaded Lincoln to put the proclamation in a... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 str.
...on the issue of timing. "Mr. President," he said, "I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression...upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear ... it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help . . . our last... | |
 | Armstead L. Robinson - 2005 - 392 str.
...State Seward asked whether the emancipation of slaves behind Confederate lines would not appear to be "the last measure of an exhausted Government, a cry for help, the government stretching forth its hand to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia's stretching forth her hands to the government." Seward urged... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - 2006 - 180 str.
...painted the president's portrait, Lincoln had expressed concern over the timing of the proclamation. "It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted...Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government," Carpenter reported him saying. 151 Indeed, from the perspective of Ethiopia, the government was asking... | |
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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... 
