 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1880 - 664 pages
...blow instantly. " By delay," he said, " the enemy will relatively gain upon you ; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements...re-enforcements alone. And once more let me tell you," he said, " it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 1194 pages
...insisted that he had a hundred and eight thousand. "And once more," said the President, " in conclusion, let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you...help this. You will do me the justice to remember that I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 700 pages
...hundred and eight thousand. " And once more," said the President, " in conclusion, let me tell }-011 it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow....help this. You will do me the justice to remember that I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near... | |
 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reenforcements alone. And once more...it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down... | |
 | Willis C. Humphrey - United States - 1886 - 720 pages
...less than 20,000 unorganized troops ? This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade. And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements...more, let me tell you, it is indispensable to you to strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted... | |
 | North American review - 1889 - 784 pages
...act" by the decrees of public opinion, and that he was forced to say to McClellan, " Once more let us tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow ! I am powerless to help this," is quite true. The practical questions are, What should the soldier have done? What did he do under... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...that is, he will gain faster, by fortifications and rc-inf or cements, than you can by re-inforcemcnts alone. And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow, /am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you — that is, be will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements...by reenforcements alone. And once more let me tell yon, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. Yon will do me... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...you— that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone. And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I nm powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down... | |
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And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I' always insisted that going down the Bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas,... 
