 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 584 pages
...tendered your resignation when you concluded not to be made a party in any legal proceedings. You add: " I am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 24th J ultimo you addressed a note to the President requesting in writing an order given to... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 800 pages
...orders directing me to disobey orders from the Secretary of War, my superior and your sulxmlinatc, without having countermanded his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." On the 24th J ultimo you addressed a note to the President requesting in writing an order given to... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 564 pages
...Senate was taken January 13. with him that he would do so. In Grant's letter of February 3 he says : — And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey. Notwithstanding the miscarriage of his plans, the President at no time abandoned the idea of displacing... | |
 | Walter Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 184 pages
...character before the country. I am, in a measure, confirmed in this conclusion by your recent order, directing me to disobey orders from the Secretary...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." When Johnson was impeached by the House of Kepresentatives, General Grant might, if he had chosen to... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 538 pages
...resistance of law, for which you hesitated to assume the responsibilitv in orders, and thus to destrov mv character before the country. I am in a measure confirmed...last resort General Thomas was appointed. This led td the impeachment of President Johnson by the House and his trial by the Senate. Upon the failure... | |
 | Webster Perit Huntington - Ohio - 1906 - 664 pages
...hesitated to assume the responsibility in orders, and thus to destroy my character before the country. 1 am in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by your...resort, General Thomas was appointed. This led to his impeachment by the House and trial by the Senate. Upon the failure of the proceedings, through... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...fully understood, was in accordance with law, and not in disobedience to any orders of my superior. "And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey." He concluded with the assurance " that nothing less than a vindication of my personal honor and character"... | |
 | Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 782 pages
...accordance with law, and not in disobedience of any orders of my superior. And now, Mr. President, where my honor as a soldier and integrity as a man have...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey. With assurances, Mr. President, that nothing less than a vindication of my personal honor and character... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 540 pages
...war ad interim, and not for the purpose of enabling you to get rid of Mr. Stanton by my -vithholding it from him in opposition to law, or, not doing so...now attempted to get General Sherman to accept, but lie resolutely declined. As a last resort General Thomas was appointed. This led to" the impeachment... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 602 pages
...fully understood, was in accordance with law and not in disobedience of any orders of my superior. And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier...his authority to issue the orders I am to disobey. With the assurance, Mr. President, that nothing less than a vindication of tny personal honor and character... | |
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And now, Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier and integrity as a man have been so violently assailed, pardon me for saying that I can but regard this whole matter, from the beginning to the end, as an attempt to involve me in the resistance of law,... 
