 With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.  The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with Biographical ... - Page 338by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Robert Allen Campbell - United States - 1866 - 390 pages
...States. With this high honor devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country here trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I...my own hearty personal concurrence." General Grant replied — a long speech for him — as follows : not to disappoint your expectation. I feel the full... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...the United States. With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a correspond ing responsibility. u As the country herein trusts you, so. under God, it...that, with what I here speak for the Nation, goes niy own hearty per sonal concurrence. 1 ' Gen. Grant replied, in perhaps the longest speech he ever... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...high honor, devolves upon you also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts yon, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need...the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence. To which General Grant made this reply : of the responsibilities now devolving on ma, and I know that... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...you Lieutenant-General in the Army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein...my own hearty personal concurrence." General Grant, whose disinclination to make a speech has been already referred to, then read from a slip of paper... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 386 pages
...Lieutenant-General in the army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein...nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence." The words of General Grant are few and far between ; but now he did reply briefly : "Mr. President,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...you Lieutenant-General in the Army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon yon also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein...nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence." Grant also read his reply, written the evening before, in a public room of the hotel : — Half an... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...Lieutenant-General in the Army of the United States. With this h/gh honor, devolves on you an additional responsibility. As the country herein trusts you,...my own hearty personal concurrence." General Grant replied with feeling : " MR. PRESIDENT : — I accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 452 pages
...Lieutenant-General in the Army of the United States. With this high honor, devolves on you an additional responsibility. As the country herein trusts you,...nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence." i General Grant replied with feeling: " MR. PRESIDENT :—I accept the commission with gratitude for... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...States. With this high honor devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the coun try herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain...the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence." In reply, Grant read the following from a slip of paper : — " MR. PRESIDENT : I accept the commission,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...high honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts yon, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need...nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence." Grant also read his reply, written the evening before, in a public room of the hotel : — 1864.] 385... | |
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