 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...  McClure's Magazine - Page 2561895Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1917 - 996 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...it, that I have given you the command. Only those who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1888 - 970 pages
...to believe it, of your recently saying that b and the Government needed a dictator. Of course it wa but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. generals who gain successes can set up dictators. Wl of you is military success, and I will risk the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritoriousand honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...-which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship.... | |
 | John William Jones - United States - 1879 - 402 pages
...wrong both to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such way as to believe it of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History - 1881 - 282 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...command. Only those generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History - 1881 - 294 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...it, that I have given you the command. Only those generaIs who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that during General Burnside's command of...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
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