Would you drop the war where it is ? Or would you prosecute it in future with elder-stalk squirts charged with rose-water? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones? Would you give up the contest, leaving any available means unapplied ? I... St. Nicholas - Page 828edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
| Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 pages
...elder-stalk squirts charged with rosewater ? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones ? Would you give up the contest, leaving any available...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing." To Augustus Belmont he wrote: — " Broken eggs cannot be mended; but Louisiana has nothing to do now... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 pages
...Letter to Durant— Barrett, p. 569.) I am in no boastful1 mood. I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the government, which...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. 82 (March 4, 1861, First Inaugural— Raymond, p. 168.) [Speaking of amending the Constitution.] While... | |
| Henry William Elson - 1900 - 440 pages
...the highest public good. It is certain that he bore no personal malice toward the Southern people. " I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing," were his words. Louisiana was the first to take advantage of the President's offer. In February, 1864,... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1905 - 934 pages
...them to consider whether it is probable I will surrender the government to save them from losing all. I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing." With equal firmness he restrained the impatience of anti-slavery zeaL Horace Greeley, editor of the... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 pages
...leaving every available means unapplied ? I am in no boastful mood. I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to -save the Government, which...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. The following response to a petition in behalf of a secossionint clergyman... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 pages
...elder-stalk squirts charged with rose-water? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones? Would you give up the contest, leaving any available...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. [Letter to August Belmont, 31 July 1862.] Dear Sir: You send to Mr. W an extract from a letter written... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 pages
...elder-stalk squirts charged with rose-water? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones? Would you give up the contest, leaving any available...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. [Letter to August Belmont, 31 July 1862.] Dear Sir: You send to Mr. W an extract from a letter written... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...leaving any available means unapplied ? I am in no boastful mood. I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the Government, which...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. On the main features of this letter there is no occasion for comment. Incidentally, were there not... | |
| Peter Joseph Hamilton - 1905 - 654 pages
...elder-stalk squirts charged with rose-water? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones? Would you give up the contest, leaving any available...What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing." Even a day or two earlier he had written to a friend there as follows: "It seems the Union feeling... | |
| John George Nicolay - 1906 - 612 pages
...and"! shall do art I can, to save the government, whicKTs"my"swbr h 'Sttfy'aS ' weTT'as hry person'Sf inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I...dealing." The President could afford to overlook the misrepresentations and invective of the professedly opposition newspapers, but he had also to meet... | |
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