 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...  The Civil War: The National View - Page 308by Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1917 - 996 pages
...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...it, that I have given you the command. Only those who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying...course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I gave you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1888 - 970 pages
...to believe it, of your recently saying that b and the Government needed a dictator. Of course it wa but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. generals who gain successes can set up dictators. Wl of you is military success, and I will risk the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...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...Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship. The Government... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritoriousand honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying...Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship. The Government... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History - 1881 - 282 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...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.... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History - 1881 - 294 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...it, that I have given you the command. Only those generaIs who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - Massachusetts - 1882 - 194 pages
...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...Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government... | |
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