 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
...Gen. Grant, in simple but pertinent language, replied, as follows : " MB. PRESIDENT : — I accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred....full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me ; and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and, above all, to the favor... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 598 pages
...MK. PRESIDENT : I accept the commission, with gratitude for llic high honor conferred. With the nid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields...will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectation. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me and I know that if... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...Grant replied, in perhaps the longest speech he ever made, as follows : " Mi:. PRESIDENT : I accept the M ! battle-fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations.... | |
 | Charles Wheeler Denison - 1864 - 358 pages
...here speak for the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence." " MR. PRESIDENT, — I accept this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies who have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1864 - 424 pages
...commission from the President, and made the following modest answer : " MR. PRESIDENT : I accept this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies who have fought on so many battle fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 pages
...hearty personal concurrence. General Grant responded as follows : — MB. PRESIDENT: — I accept this commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred....endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the fall weight of the responsibilities now devolving on mo, and I know that if they are met, it will be... | |
 | 1865 - 870 pages
...goes my own hearty personal concurrence. To which Gen. Grant replied : MR. PRESIDENT: I accept this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred....fought on so many fields for our common country, it wilfbe my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 pages
...hearty personal concurrence. General Grant responded as follows : — MB. PRESIDENT: — I accept this commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that hare fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...Having received the commission, Lieutenant-General Grant answered: " MB. PRESIDENT : I accept this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies who have fought on so many battle-fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1865 - 830 pages
...hearty personal concurrence." To which General Grant replied as follows : "Mr. Pretident: I accept this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble arniie-; that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor... | |
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Mr. President, I accept the commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought in so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel... 
