 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...are. 1 ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. 1 only ask a prompt decision, that 1 may at once give the necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer. There can be no mistaking the transparent menace of this dispatch. Of the alternatives he suggested,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders...necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer." At 4.10 pm the President replies: "Yours of to-day just received. I think your first alternative, to... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...to do, and 1 will do all in my power to accomplish it. I -wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders...necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer. " GB McCLELLAN, Major-General." To this the President replied, that he considered the first of the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...to do, and I wi 1 do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority To which the President, at 4:10 p. M., responded as follows : " Yours of to-day jnst received. I think... | |
 | William Swinton - Campaign literature - 1864 - 44 pages
...me to do and I will do all in my power to accomollsh it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders...necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer." Expressive silence is the only possible comment on this astounding proposition, for the profound horror... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders...necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer. "GB McCLELLAN, " Major General. " A. LINCOLN, President." And copy to General Halleck. To which the... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders...necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer. "GB McCLELLAN, " Major General. " A. LINCOLN, President." And copy to General Halleck. To which the... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders...necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer. "GB McCLELLAN, " Major General. "A. LINCOLN, President." And copy to General Halleck. To which the... | |
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Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision, that I may at once give the necessary... 
