 | 1889 - 1060 sayfa
...Months at the White House," p. 21.) If these were his words, his memory was slightly at fault. icy; and without consultation with, or the knowledge of,...thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. . . . All were present excepting Mr. Blair, the Postrhaster-General, who was absent at the opening... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 sayfa
...been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and mnst change our tactics or lose the game ! I now determined upon the adoption of the Emancipation...of July, or the first part of the month of August, 1802." (The exact date he did not remember.) " This Cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon a Saturday.... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 sayfa
...been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and mast change our tacties or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...subject. This was the last of July, or the first part of August, 1X62, [the exact date he did not remember.] This Cabinet meetmg took place, I think, upon a... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 sayfa
...been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...Cabinet meeting upon the subject. This was the last i,f July, or the tirst part of August, IKti2, [the exact date he did not remember.] This Cabinet meetmg... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 sayfa
...about played our last card, and mast change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined ii]»on the adoption of the emancipation policy ; and without consultation with, or the knowledge of, t:n? Utbinf t, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and, after much anxious thought,... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1867 - 736 sayfa
...; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game ! Fumlliar Talk with Mr. Lincoln. I now determined upon the adoption...first part of the month of August, 1862. (The exact dale he did not remember.) This Cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon a Saturday. All were present,... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1867 - 208 sayfa
...been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...subject. This was the last of July, or the first part of August, 1862. This Cabinet meeting took place upon a Saturday. All were present, excepting Mr. Blair,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 sayfa
...been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game. I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation...knowledge of the cabinet, I prepared the original draught of the proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a cabinet-meeting upon the subject.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1867 - 580 sayfa
...our tactics, or lose the game. I now determined upon the emancipation policy ; and without consulting with or the knowledge of the Cabinet, I prepared the...after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting on the subject. This was the last of July or the first part of the month of August, 1862. This Cabinet... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1869 - 702 sayfa
...been pursuing ! That we had about played our last card, and must change our tacties or lose the game ! I now determined upon the adoption of the Emancipation...thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. This Cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon a Saturday. All were present, except Mr. Blair, the Postmaster-General,... | |
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Things had gone on from bad to worse until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope on the plan of operations we had been pursuing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game. I now determined upon the... 
