 All your rights shall be religiously respected, notwithstanding all that has been said by the traitors to induce you to believe that our advent among you will be signalized by interference with your slaves. Understand one thing clearly. Not only will...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 258edited by - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...your slaves, understand one tiling clearly : not only will we abstain Irora all interference, but tee will, on the contrary, with an iron hand, crush any attempt at insurrection on their part." in front of the rebel entrenchments on the road. So well was the enemy's position defended by art and... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...will be signalized by an interference with your slaves, understand one thing clearly : Not only w'll we abstain from all such interference, but we will,...arms and support the General Government ; sever the counection that hinds you to traitors ; pro claim to the world that the faith and loyalty so long hoasted... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...be religiously respected " ; that not only there shall be no interference with the slaves, but he " will, on the contrary, with an iron hand, crush any attempt at insurrection on their part." General McDowell, at Arlington (June 2), prescribes an exact schedule of inquiry, to ascertain precisely... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...be religiously respected " ; that not only there shall be no interference w^th the slaves, but he " will, on the contrary, with an iron hand, crush any attempt at insurrection on their part." General McDowell, at Arlington (June 2), prescribes an exact schedule of inquiry, to ascertain precisely... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...among you will be signalized by an interference with your slaves, understand one thing clearly : not only will we abstain from all such interference, but...crush any attempt at insurrection on their part." Tliis last sentence, in the severity of its utterance, fell painfully on the ears of a large portion... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...slaves. Understand OM thing clearly : not only will we abstain from all such inter* ferencc, but wo will, on the contrary, with an iron hand crush any...in your midst, I call upon you to fly to arms and rapport the General Government; sever tho connoction that binds you to traitors; proclaim to the world... | |
 | Hiram Ketchum - Campaign literature - 1864 - 80 pages
...advent among you will be signalized by interference with your slaves. Understand one thing clearly ; not only will we abstain from all such interference, but-...the contrary, with an iron hand, crush any attempt on their part." S.uch was the policy he proclaimed to the world before he was called by the President,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...among you will be signal ized by interference with your slaves, understand one thing clearly — not only will we abstain from all such interference, but we will, on the contrary, with an iron hand, crash any attempt at insurrection on their part. The first engagement in Western Virginia was fought... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...them, " Understand one thing clearly : not only will we abstain from all interference with your slaves, but we will, on the contrary, with an iron hand crush any attempt at insurrection on their part." On the 27th of May, General Butler, in command at Fortress Monroe, wrote to the Secretary of War that... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...them, " Understand one thing clearly : not only will we abstain from all interference with your slaves, but we will, on the contrary, with an iron hand crush any attempt at insurrection on their part." On the 27th of May, General Butler, in command at Fortress Monroe, wrote to the Secretary of War that... | |
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