 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 500 pages
...reminded his ministers of^how they had endorsed it unread, and he read it them. Its contents ran thus: " This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards." Lincoln explained what he had intended to do if McClellan had won. He would have gone to him and said,... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - Caricatures and cartoons - 1916 - 326 pages
...and sealed the following memorandum. (I quote from the Nicolay-Hay biography, vol. LX, pp. 252-3): This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward. He folded and pasted the sheet of paper on which this was written in such manner that its... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - 1916 - 74 pages
...things in view, Mr. Lincoln, on the 23rd of August, wrote the following memorandum : "This morning, and for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable...the election and the inauguration, as he will have to secure his election on such grounds that he can not possibly save it afterwards." What can the carping... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - Cabinet officers - 1916 - 558 pages
...Aug. 23, 1864. not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect as to save the Union between the election and the...ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards. 1 "'A. LINCOLN."' Lincoln went on to say, as I have quoted in an earlier chapter, that he had resolved,... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 532 pages
...reminded his ministers of?how they had endorsed it unread, and he read it them. Its contents ran thus: " This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will t>e my duty to so co-operate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and... | |
 | Abram Jesse Dittenhoefer - History - 1916 - 114 pages
...administration will be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to co-operate with the President-elect so as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration, as my successor will have secured his election on such grounds that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 pages
...reminded his ministers of how they had endorsed it unread, and he read it them. Its contents ran thus : " This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards." Lincoln explained what he had intended to do if McClellan had won. He would have gone to him and said,... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...he had each member of his Cabinet endorse unread and which remained unopened till November 11: — "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards." During these gloomy days Grant had his own anii noyances. His major-generals were at loggerheads. Meade... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 296 pages
...wrote upon a piece of paper the following memorandum: "EXECUTIVE MANSION, "WASHINGTON, August 23, 1864. "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward. "A. LINCOLN." When his Cabinet met he handed the folded paper to all the members, who signed... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 350 pages
...p. 2-0 18 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, VoL X., p. 303. "Executive Mansion, August 23rd, 1864. "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...the election and the inauguration ; as he will have to secure his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward. "A. LINCOLN." Why... | |
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This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he... 
