 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 532 pages
...of Secretary of War ad interim, and not for the purpose of enabling you to get rid of Mr. Stanton by withholding it from him in opposition to law, or, not doing so myself, surrendering it to one who would, as the statements and assumptions in your communication plainly indicate was sought."... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 566 pages
...must have known that my greatest objection to his removal or suspension was the fear that some one would be appointed in his stead who would, by opposition...to law, or, not doing so myself, surrendering it to some one who would, as the statements and assumptions in your communication plainly indicate was sought.... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...must have known that my greatest objection to his removal or suspension was the fear that some one would be appointed in his stead, who would, by opposition...to law, or, not doing so myself, surrendering it to one who would, as the statement and assumptions in your communication plainly indicate was sought.... | |
 | Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 782 pages
...must have known that my greatest objection, to his removal or suspension, was the fear that some one would be appointed in his stead who would, by opposition...to law, or not doing so myself, surrendering it to one who would, as the statement and assumptions in your communication plainly indicate was sought.... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 602 pages
...and an inconsistency with the whole history of my connection with the suspension of Mr. Stanton. , From our conversations and my written protest of August...to law, or, not doing so myself, surrendering it to one who would, as the statement and assumptions in your communication plainly indicate was sought.... | |
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Army in the performance of duties especially imposed upon it by these laws; and it was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim, and not for the purpose of enabling you to get rid of Mr. Stanton by my withholding... 
