| George Washington Julian - Reconstruction - 1884 - 402 pages
...quarters in the Treasury Department. He received us with decided cordiality, and Mr. Wade said to him : "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there...will be no trouble now in running the government!" The President thanked him, and went on to define his well-remembered policy at that time. " I hold,"... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 554 pages
...called on the new President, and Senator Wade bluntly expressed to him the feeling of his associates : " Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running ibid.,P.a57. the Government." Before many months passed away they had opportunity to learn that violence... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 568 pages
...called on the new President, and Senator Wade bluntly expressed to him the feeling of his associates : " Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running ibid.,P.js7. the Government." Before many months passed away they had opportunity to learn that violence... | |
| Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...dead the committee on the conduct of the war called upon the new President, and Senator Wade said : " Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government! " There was trouble, however, and the country is not proud of the men who undertook to do what Lincoln... | |
| Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...dead the committee on the conduct of the war called upon the new President, and Senator Wade said : " Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government! " There was trouble, however, and the country is not proud of the men who undertook to do what Lincoln... | |
| David Miller DeWitt - Trials (Impeachment) - 1903 - 668 pages
...conduct of the war waited upon him and amid their congratulations, senator Wade was heard to exclaim: "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no more trouble in running the government." But such a burst of feeling, by its very nature, could not... | |
| Southern History Association - Southern States - 1905 - 468 pages
...Treasury and "Bluff Ben," as he was called, expressed the common sentiment in his own outspoken way : "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there...will be no trouble now in running the government." And the earliest utterances of the new President seemed to confirm their fondest anticipations. While... | |
| Peter Joseph Hamilton - History - 1905 - 654 pages
...Republicans had called on him, and even indicated that the change was for the better. "Johnson," said he, "we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no more trouble in running the government." For he had seen Johnson's rugged honesty and devotion to the... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 394 pages
...Lincoln. "Johnson, we have faith in you," cried Mr. Benjamin Wade, the radical leader of the Senate. "By the gods! there will be no trouble now in running the government." But a few weeks changed the whole aspect of affairs. Mr. Johnson retained Mr. Lincoln's cabinet unchanged.... | |
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