 | 1916 - 1130 pages
...were made to him, he had but one answer, repeated again and again in conversation and in letters : " Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...labor is lost and sooner or later must be done over." No pacifist of his day was more eager for peace than Abraham Lincoln. Nothing he ever wrote has greater... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 pages
...instructions as to the course he should pursue. CHAP. xvi. Under date of December 11, Mr. Lincoln replied : Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...extension of slavery. The instant you do they have us uuder again : all our labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over. Douglas is sure to be again... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1892 - 492 pages
...represented Illinois in the committee of Thirty-three, he had already written, on the llth of December: " Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery. The inBtant you do they have us under again : all our labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over.... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...compromise." To Mr. Kellogg, the Illinoisian on the House Committee of Thirty -three, Lincoln wrote: "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over again." He repeated almost the same words to EB Washburne, a member of the House. Duff Green tried... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...compromise." To Mr. Kellogg, the Illinoisian on the House Committee of Thirty -three, Lincoln wrote: "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...extension of slavery. The instant you do, they have us tinder again ; all our labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over again." He repeated almost... | |
 | 1899 - 652 pages
...the Illinois member of the committee, wrote to him. His reply, dated December llth, is unmistakable : Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...extension of slavery. The instant you do, they have ns under again : all our labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over. Douglas is sure to be... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Washington, DC December 11, 1860. — REPLY TO A LETTER FROM WILLIAM KELLOGG, MC, ASKING ADVICE. Entertain no proposition for a compromise...again trying to bring in his "popular sovereignty." VOL. I.— 42. Have none of it. The tug has to come, and better now than later. You know I think the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 686 pages
...the Republican party, the principle that explained the reason of the party's existence, he was firm. "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," he wrote, December 11, to Kellogg, the Illinois member of the House committee of thirtythree on the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 702 pages
...the Republican party, the principle that explained the reason of the party's existence, he was firm. "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," he wrote, December 11, to Kellogg, the Illinois member of the House committee of thirtythree on the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 702 pages
...the Republican party, the principle that explained the reason of the party's existence, he was firm. "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," he wrote, December 11, to Kellogg, the Illinois member of the House committee of thirtythree on the... | |
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Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery. The instant you do they have us under again : all our labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over. Douglas is sure to be again trying to bring in his "popular sovereignty."... 
