| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...Mississippi Valley. Let us make it dead-sure—and I tell you, the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk. Wo have done much, but still much remains. Time, and time's influences, are with us. We could almost'afford... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 566 pages
...Mississippi Valley. Let us make it dead-sure — and I tell you, the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sure as th.e limbs of a tree live or die with the mam trunk. We have done much, but still much remains. Time, and time's influences, are with us. We... | |
| 1865 - 654 pages
...sure — and I tell you the Atlantic slopes and the Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sore as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk. We have done uiucli, but still much remains. Time and time's influences are with us. We could almost afford to sit... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Cheyenne Indians - 1866 - 876 pages
...Mississippi valley. Let us make it dead sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a...afford to sit still and let these influences work. Even in the seceded States your word now would go further than a president's proclamation or an act... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 886 pages
...Mississippi valley. Let us make it dead sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a...afford to sit still and let these influences work. Even in the seceded States your word now would go further than a president's proclamation or an art... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...so expensive, are more to be depended on and much less disgustful." — Machiavel. (The Prince.) " We have done much, but still much remains. Time and...afford to sit Still and let these influences work." — Sherman to Grant, 1864. " If Europe leaves America to Eepublicanism — well. If she interferes,... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...common sense seems to have supplied all these. tell you the Atlantic 8lopes and the Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sure as the limbs of a...with the main trunk. We have done much, but still mnch remains. Time and time's influences are with us. We could almost afford to sit still and let these... | |
| James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 452 pages
...Mississippi Valley. Let us make it dead sure; and I tell you the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a....and let these influences work. Here lies the seat of coming empire; and from the West, where our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 606 pages
...Mississippi Valley. Let us make it dead sure— and I tell you, the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sure as the limbs of a...afford to sit still, and let these influences work. u Here lies the seat of the coming empire, and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short... | |
| Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...dead sure ; and I tell you the Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as surely as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk....done much; but still much remains. Time and time's influence are with us. We could almost afford to sit still, and let these influences work. Here lies... | |
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