 | Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1896 - 92 pages
...was necessary first to have the proposed amendment approved by two thirds of the States; and when 62 that question came to be considered the issue was...long time beforehand. At last, late one afternoon, 51! the President came into my office, a room in the third story of the War Department. He used to... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1898 - 328 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a State; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, " It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers." In March, 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a State government finally came up in the House... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a State; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying: "It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million soldiers. " Recollections oj the Civil War. Charles A. Dana, page 174. "I Suppose I Should Have Done... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 764 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a State; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying: "It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million soldiers. " Recollections of the Civil War, Charles A. Dana, page 174. "I Suppose I Should Have Done... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 814 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a state; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, "It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers." In March, 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a state government finally came up in the House... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 798 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a state; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, "It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers." In March, 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a state government f1nally came up in the House... | |
 | Sam Post Davis - Nevada - 1913 - 760 pages
...petty, and not big enough to be a State; but when I hear that complaint I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying: 'It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers.' " In March of 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a State government finally came to the... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1924 - 832 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a state ; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, " It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million pf soldiers." In March, 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a state government finally came... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - Local government - 1925 - 420 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a State ; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, "It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers." In March, 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a State government finally came up in the House... | |
 | John Mabry Mathews, Clarence Arthur Berdahl - Local government - 1928 - 1004 pages
...petty, not big enough to be a state ; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, "It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers." In March, 1864, the question of allowing Nevada to form a state government finally came up in the House... | |
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Nevada was organized and admitted into the Union to answer that purpose. I have sometimes heard people complain of Nevada as superfluous and petty, not big enough to be a State; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, " It... 
