The Secret and Political History of the War of the Rebellion: The Causes Leading Thereto, and the Effects, Showing how Abraham Lincoln Came to be President of the United States, Exposing the Secret Working and Conspiring of Those in Power, and the Motive and Purpose of Prolonging the War for Four Years! With Additions and Illus |
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Page 22 - I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me...
Page 40 - You are ordered to cross the frontier and enter upon the soil of Virginia. Your mission is to restore peace and confidence, to protect the majesty of the law and to rescue our brethren from the grasp of armed traitors.
Page 40 - When under your protection the loyal men of Western Virginia have been enabled to organize and arm, they can protect themselves, and you can then return to your homes with the proud satisfaction of having preserved a gallant people from destruction.
Page 53 - Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe.
Page 41 - ... enemy. Bear in mind that you are in the country of friends, not of enemies ; that you are here to protect, not to destroy. Take nothing, destroy nothing, ,unless you are ordered to do so by your general officers. Remember that...
Page 54 - Yours of to-day just received. I think your first alternative, to wit, 'to concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope,' is the~ right one, but I wish not to control. That I now leave to General Halleck, aided by your counsels.
Page 46 - In prosecuting the -war all private property and unarmed persons should be strictly protected, subject only to the necessity of military operations; all private property taken for military use should be paid or receipted for; pillage and waste should be treated as high crimes, all unnecessary trespass sternly prohibited, and offensive demeanor by the military toward citizens promptly rebuked. Military arrests should not be tolerated, except in places where active hostilities exist, and oaths not...
Page 46 - The time has come when the Government must determine upon a civil and military policy, covering the whole ground of our national trouble. The responsibility of determining, declaring and supporting such civil and military policy and of directing the whole course of national affairs in regard to the rebellion, must now be assumed and exercised by you or our cause will be lost. The Constitution gives you power sufficient even for the present terrible exigency.
Page 47 - Unless the principles governing the future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and approved, the effort to obtain requisite forces will be almost hopeless. A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies.
Page 30 - Jocko, who said he thought he could command their army if his tail could be made a little longer. So they got more tail and spliced it on to his caudal appendage. He looked at it admiringly, and then thought he ought to have a little more still. This was added, and again he called for more. The splicing process was repeated many times, until they had coiled Jocko's tail around the room, filling all the space. Still he called for more tail, and, there being no other place to coil it, they began wrapping...