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...character that underlay that behavior. This was the occasion of Lincoln's often quoted advice to Hooker: "I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recendy saying that both the Army and the Government needed a dictator. . . . Only those generals who...

...counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong both to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator....

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...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of yoar recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course, it was not...

...your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which within...it, of your recently saying that both the army and government needed a dictator; of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given...