 | United States. Congress. House - 1868 - 846 strani
...complied, he would be removed from office. He then told Mr. Sawyer that he would not comply, " and would fight it out on that line if -it took all summer to do it." He then wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, informing him of all the facts... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1873 - 872 strani
...be se.en that Stuart was not the pioneer newspaper man in the Queen city of Southern New York. tion, that he would "fight it out on that line, "if it took...to this query demands an analytical investigation oí what meaning Grant intended to соптеу Ът these words. If he meant a persistent hammering... | |
 | William Wallace Bennett - 1877 - 454 strani
...THE boast of General Grant while the movements described in the preceding chapter were going on, was, that he would " fight it out on that line if it took all summer;" but after the bloody repulses in the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania Courthouse, he thought better... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1877 - 446 strani
...singularly characteristic dispatch, the memory of which ought never to be recalled without a pang, that he would " fight it out on that line if it took all summer." This utterance was in the same spirit with Hooker's arrogant and impious challenge to the Almighty... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1879 - 888 strani
...himself again foiled, but, instead of being disheartened, his determination grew stronger, and he said he would " fight it out on that line if it took all summer." Government liked the resolute spirit he exhibited, but when he asked for reinforcements, it was filled... | |
 | William Franklin Switzler - 1879 - 658 strani
...dispassionately the force of the arguments, but Lyman Wiglit was opposed to any terms, and wanted to "fight it out on that line if it took all summer." The forces under Jackson were determined to carry the Mormon position at all hazards the next morning ;... | |
 | Augustus Allen Hayes - 1880 - 218 strani
...thought that a burro was going to get the better of him, he would soon show him that he was mistaken ; that he would fight it out on that line if it took all summer ; and that he had had the two brutes (and the ignominious pests, according to him, bore the singularly... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1880 - 1000 strani
...patience and pluck. Through vote after vote, up to the thirty-fourth, they repeated their determination to fight it out on that line if it took all summer. The Blaine people seem to have put some reliance upon prevalent reports that the Grant leaders meant to... | |
 | Augustus Allen Hayes - 1881 - 214 strani
...thought that a burro was going to get the better of him, he would soon show him that he was mistaken ; that he would fight it out on that line if it took all summer ; and that he had had the two brutes (and the ignominious pests, according to him, bore the singularly... | |
 | Hugh McCulloch - 1888 - 582 strani
...after this battle that General Grant sent his celebrated dispatch to Washington, that he intended " to fight it out on that line, if it took all summer." The loyal people, in the pursuit of business or pleasure, were delighted with this dispatch. It reminded... | |
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American general who said he would fight it out on that line if it took all summer. 
