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" I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes... "
Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches: Including "Early Life Stories ... - Page 184
by Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 477 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...not for this, but in spite of it, that I gave you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military...that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 119

American essays - 1917 - 996 pages
...successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is success, and I will risk the dictatorship. I much fear that the spirit, which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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History of the Civil War in America, Volume 3

Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1888 - 970 pages
...is military success, and I will risk the dicta; Government will support you to the utmost of its abi neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to in army, of criticising their commander and withholdir...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military...that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military...that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now iisk of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship....that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military...has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear tha: the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding...
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Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume

John William Jones - United States - 1879 - 402 pages
...spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success,...Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, %vhich is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit...
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About Grant

John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...— GRANT'S Speech on receiving Commission as Lieutenant General. CHAPTER VII. CLOSING THE GAPS. " I MUCH fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withdrawing confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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Obituary Notice of Maj.-Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman, First Commander of the ...

Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military...that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you....
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