 Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.  Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant - 第 341 頁Ulysses Simpson Grant 著 - 1885 - 1231 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1877 - 226 頁
...accept: writing from the battle-field, on the proposition that he should go home to canvass, that " an officer, fit for duty, who, at this crisis, would...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped.' In the House, he was chairman of the Library Committee, and, under his direction, the accommodations... | |
 | 1875 - 1750 頁
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who, at this crisis, would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing." His wish for success was strong, but his sense... | |
 | James Quay Howard - 1876 - 266 頁
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be. scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing. We are, and for two weeks past have been, in... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1882 - 790 頁
...political friends then wrote for him to return to Ohio and make the canvass. But Hayes replied : " Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." four retaken from the enemy at Cedar Creek ;* the names of thirteen thousand prisoners were inscribed... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1887 - 834 頁
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stu mp was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in congress, ought to be scalped." He was elected by a majority of 2,400. The Ohio soldiers in the field nominated him also for the governorship... | |
 | 1900 - 536 頁
...and stump his district. "Your suggestion," he answered, "was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for Congress, ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing." He was elected,... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1888 - 308 頁
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped. " He frankly confessed that, having been nominated, he desired an election, but turned from looking... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 頁
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in congress ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing. We are, and for two weeks past have been, in... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 818 頁
...authorities, and further that for the remuneration of public officers a system of fixed salaries, without for duty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in congress, ought to lie scalped." He was elected by a majority of 2,400. The Ohio soldiers in the field nominated him also... | |
 | Virginia Frances Townsend - 1888 - 462 頁
...slowly but surely coming. It came for Ulysses Grant July 23, 1885. O l.' RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES. " AN officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." In August, 1864, a brevet Major General, who had won his title by gallant services in the West Virginia... | |
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