 I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as, in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act.  Congressional Serial Set - Page 2971916Full view - About this book
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...hesitation to move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure yon that I have never written or spoken to you in greater...in my most anxious judgment I consistently can. But yon must act. " No one can fail to sympathize with the President in his trying situation. Contrary... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 392 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can ; but you must act. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. •DESPATCH TO GENERAL HW HALLECK EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 9, 1862. Major-General... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - History - 1906 - 382 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act." The following certified statement is the report, signed by General McClellan and his Ass't Adjutant... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. " I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...judgment I consistently can ; but you must act."" Unfortunately, advice from this quarter was as cheap as ever in the estimation of the General commanding.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. Yours very truly, TO GENERAL HW HALLECK. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 9, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 698 pages
...or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain j'ou so far as, in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act." ' Instead, however, of piercing the Confederate line by assault, McClellan sat down before Yorktown,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can ; but you must act. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln. [Telegram.] Washington, April 21, 1862. Major-General McClellan : Your... | |
 | David Homer Bates - United States - 1907 - 452 pages
...elsewhere than in the President, who in closing says: I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. So far as may be judged from telegraphic data the estrangement — if... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 764 pages
...assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, or with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as, in...anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act. "Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." . . . As regards the discrepancy of 23,000 men, it is sufficient to... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, or with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as, in...anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act. "Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." . . . As regards the discrepancy of 23,000 men, it is sufficient to... | |
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