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" He says arrest him, but that I should refer the question to you." "Well," said he, slowly, wiping his hands, "no ; I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. "
Lincoln and His Cabinet: A Lecture Delivered Before the New Haven Colony ... - Page 69
by Charles Anderson Dana - 1896 - 72 pages
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 11

1898 - 686 pages
...this direction, I returned to the War Department. "Well.whatsayshe?" asked Mr. Stanton. " He says that when you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." " Oh, stuff! " said Stanton. That night I was awaked from a sound sleep...
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Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the ...

Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1898 - 324 pages
...asked. " He says arrest him, but that I should refer the question to you." " Well," said the President slowly, wiping his hands, " no, I rather think not....When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he's trying to run away, it's best to let him run." With this direction, I returned to the War Department....
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Washington: The Capital City and Its Part in the History of the Nation, Volume 2

Rufus Rockwell Wilson - United States - 1901 - 446 pages
...the answer. " Well," said Lincoln, slowly, wiping his hands ; " no, I rather think not. When you have an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." Thompson was not arrested. Late in the afternoon the President set out for...
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The Life of Charles A. Dana

James Harrison Wilson - Journalists - 1907 - 576 pages
...the matter to the President. As soon as the latter understood the question to be answered, he said, " No, I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run I"1 That night, while at the play, Lincoln received his death wound at the...
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Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes ...

Anecdotes - 1918 - 708 pages
...the matter to the president. As soon as the latter understood the question to be answered, he said, "No; I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." — WILSON. In my interview with him the name came up of a recently deceased...
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Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes ...

Charles Anthony Shriner - Anecdotes - 1918 - 712 pages
...the matter to the president. As soon as the latter understood the question to be answered, he said, "No; I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." — WILSON. In шу interview with him the name came up of a recently deceased...
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The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

Frank Michael O'Brien - Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833) - 1918 - 542 pages
...commissioner who was trying to go from Canada to Europe through Maine. Lincoln returned the historic reply : " No, I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run ! " A few hours after the President's death, however, Stanton ordered Dana...
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Lincoln's Last Day

John William Starr - Presidents - 1922 - 138 pages
...refer the question to you." "Well," answered Lincoln slowly, wiping his hands, "no; I rather guess not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." And with this direction Dana returned to his chief. The President rejoining...
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The Assassination of Lincoln

E. W. Coggeshall - Presidents - 1924 - 116 pages
...was washing his hands : "Hello, Dana ! What is it? What's up?" "What does Stanton say?" Mr. Lincoln asked. "He says arrest him, but that I should refer...elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." "Well, what says he?" asked Stanton when Dana returned to the war department....
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Civil Rights, 1959, Volumes 1-2

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Civil rights - 1959 - 1482 pages
...confronted with the problem, he might make the same remark which he actually did make to CA Dana in 1865: "When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." We have not attempted to brief the constitutional aspects of all the bills...
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