 | Herman Haupt - Generals - 1901 - 354 pages
...the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such a way as I believe it, of your recently saying that both the...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of yon is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Herman Haupt - Generals - 1901 - 350 pages
...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the extent of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Free thought - 1901 - 530 pages
...Government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can...set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military successes, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - History, Modern - 1905 - 934 pages
...country 1883] Hooker's march on Richmond. 485 and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." This missive, notifying him of his appointment, written confidentially to Hooker on January 25, 1863,... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...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 your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...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 your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1902 - 444 pages
...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 your recently saying that both the army and the govern ment needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...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 your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...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 your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
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I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that ''I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes... 
