 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1890 - 294 pages
...obvious reasons I withhold the friend's name : " As to your kind wishes for myself," writes Lincoln, " allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis—first, because in the main it is wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money.... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1889 - 276 pages
...obvious reasons I withhold the friend's name : " As to your kind wishes for myself," writes Lincoln, " allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis—first, because in the main.it is wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money.... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...obvious reasons I withhold the friend's name : " As to your kind wishes for myself," writes Lincoln, " allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis—first, because in the main it is wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money.... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 410 pages
...obvious reasons I withhold the friend's name: " As to your kind wishes for myself," writes Lincoln, " allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis—first, because in the main it is wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...and indispensable. With me, as with yourself, the long struggle has been one of great pecuniary loss. As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say...and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money. I now distinctly say this — if you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago, I will furnish one hundred... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...gathered together and intensified by party tactics. Lincoln himself wrote to a Western politician: — " As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say...and cannot get the money. I say in the main the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects in a political contest the use of same is both right and... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...gathered together and intensified by party tactics. Lincoln himself wrote to a Western politician: — " As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis—first, because in the main it is wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money.... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1900 - 322 pages
...Collection of Hist. Dept of Iowa. Loaned by the Hon. Chas. Aldrich, Des Moines, Iowa.) MARCH 10, 1860. wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money. I say in the main the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects in a political contest, the use of some, is both right,... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 322 pages
...Present my respects to Qenl. Lane; and say to him, I shall be pleased to hear from him at any time. wrong; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money. I say in the main the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects in a political contest, the use of some, is both right,... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...a gentleman in Kansas, " Allow me to say that I cannot enter the ring on the money basis,—first, because in the main it is wrong; and secondly, I have...and cannot get the money. I say in the main the use of money is wrong, but for certain objects in a political contest is both right and indispensable.... | |
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As to your kind •wishes for myself, allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis — first, because, in the main, it is wrong ; and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money. I say, in the main the use 
