 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
 | Hamlin Garland - 1898 - 610 pages
...you lieutenantgeneral in the army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein...I scarcely need to add that with what I here speak goes my own hearty concurrence." General Grant's reply was equally simple, but his hands shook, and... | |
 | Hamlin Garland - Biography & Autobiography - 1898 - 632 pages
...you lieutenantgeneral in the army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein...I scarcely need to add that with what I here speak goes my own hearty concurrence." General Grant's reply was equally simple, but his hands shook, and... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 618 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...here speak for the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence."1 Grant replied: "Mr. President, I accept this commission with gratitude for the high... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, aO, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to...here speak for the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence."1 Grant replied: "Mr. President, I accept this commission with gratitude for the high... | |
 | James Madison Aubery - United States - 1900 - 446 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...nation, goes my own hearty, personal concurrence." To which the general replied: "Mr. President : I accept this commission with gratitude for the high... | |
 | Walter Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 184 pages
...lieutenant-general in the army of the United States. With the high honor, devolves on you an additional responsibility. As the country herein trusts you,...my own hearty personal concurrence." General Grant made the following re"Ms. PRESIDENT, — I accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...responsibility. As the country trusts in you, so, under God, it will sustain you. "I scarcely need add that with what I here speak for the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence." The words were spoken with trembling lips, so deep the feeling of Mr. Lincoln. "Mr. President," General... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - Indiana - 1901 - 374 pages
...Northern forces. In presenting the new commission, Lincoln addressed General Grant in these words : " As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you." General Grant made answer : " I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...Lieutenant-General in the Army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon 393 you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein...goes my own hearty personal concurrence." General Grant's reply was modest and also very brief : "Mr. President, I accept this commission with gratitude... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 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...the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence." The general had written his speech on half of a sheet of note-paper, in lead-pencil, but when he came... | |
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