 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pages
...wrong, when I came to command the Army of the Potomac — that a head was needed to the army. I did not want the Presidency and have never quite forgiven...second nomination was almost due to me — if I may be pardoned the phrase — because of the bitterness of political and personal opponents. My re-election... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 936 pages
...wrong, when I came to command the Army of the Potomac — that a head was needed to the army. I did not want the Presidency and have never quite forgiven...second nomination was almost due to me — if I may be pardoned the phrase — because of the bitterness of political and personal opponents. My re-election... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 pages
...the work that Providence devolved upon me. I did not want to be made lieutenant-general. I did not want the presidency, and have never quite forgiven...for resigning the command of the army to accept it." The following letter, however, written while at West Point, to his cousin, McKingstry Griffith, shows... | |
 | 1886 - 638 pages
...was the work that Providence devolved upon me. I did not want to be made lieutenantgeneral. I did not want the presidency, and have never quite forgiven...resigning the command of the army to accept it.— Conversation. We will not deny to any of those who fought against us any privileges under the government... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 484 pages
...1893. * Letters,vol. ii. jj^6&. 8 " I did not want the presidency," said Grant in 1879, "ancTaavenever quite forgiven myself for resigning the command of...and if my name could aid it I was bound to accept." Around the World with General Grant, JR Young, vol. ii. p. 452. tomed to seeing men leap from farm... | |
 | Will Carleton - 1910 - 828 pages
...when I came to command the Army of the Potomac — that a head was needed to the army." "/ did not want the Presidency, and have never quite forgiven myself for resigning the command of the army ; but it could not be helped. I owed my honors and opportunities to the Republican party, and if my... | |
 | Moorfield Storey, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 378 pages
...not want it, and have never quite forgiven myself for resigning the command of the army to accept it. I owed my honors and opportunities to the Republican...my name could aid it, I was bound to accept." The Judge was too high-minded to cherish any grudge against the President for asking for his resignation.... | |
 | Moorfield Storey, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 384 pages
...patriotic purpose who, called to the Presidency later, said of his acceptance, "I did not want it, and have never quite forgiven myself for resigning the command of the army to accept it. I owed my honors and opportunities to the Republican party, and, if my name could aid it, I was bound... | |
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I did not want the Presidency and have never quite forgiven myself for resigning the command of the army to accept it; but it could not be helped. I owed my honors and opportunities to the Republican party and if my name could aid it I was bound to accept. 
