 Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall...  abraham lincoln - Page 287by charles carleton coffin - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Closing Paragraph of Message to Congress, December i, 1862. SELLOW-CITIZENS, we cannot escape history.... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...I would also do that ... 1 have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty and 1 intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. letter to Horace Greelcy, 22 August 18(12, in RP Basler (ed.) Collected Works ... ( 195 }) vol. s 12... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...cause.426 Lincoln concluded this statement — an open letter to Horace Greeley — with the assurance, "I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free."427 It should be noticed that Lincoln's flexibility, in his effort to save... | |
 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...oft-expressed/«Tro«rt/ wish that all men every where could be free," along with his pragmatic assurance that he would "adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."20 Some British observers recognized the broad purpose of Lincoln's statement. Smart remained... | |
 | Andrew Linklater - International relations - 2000 - 384 pages
...whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. 296 The foregoing discussion ought to shed additional light, if this is still needed, upon the moral... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. ... I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free." Greeley printed the text of Lincoln's letter on August 25. While Lincoln was stepping into considerably... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have...oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.27 Union and its democratic significance was still the main source of popular appeal. That it... | |
 | David Burchell, Andrew Leigh - Political Science - 2002 - 208 pages
...would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that ... I have here stated my purpose according to my view...personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. (1993: 156-57) Lincoln's account of how, in Weber's terms, an ethic of responsibility 6 might modulate... | |
 | Nathan W. Schlueter - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 212 pages
...(New York: The Library of America, 1989), 357. Lincoln concludes this letter with the following words: "I have here stated my purpose according to my view...modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free." See also Lincoln's dialogue with the representatives of the Chicago Emancipation... | |
 | Peder Jones, Jay Farness - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 478 pages
...leaving others alone, I would also do that. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty; and I intend no modification of...personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed.... | |
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