 | 1888 - 1008 pages
...27th of July he wrote: "I find myself in a new and strange position here; President, Cabinet, General Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic I seem to have become the power of the land." Three days later he wrote: "They give me my way in everything, full swing and unbounded confidence.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 564 pages
...of July he wrote : " I find myself in a new and strange position here ; President, Cabinet, General Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic I seem to have become the power of the land." Three days later he wrote : " They give me my way in everything, full swing and unbounded confidence.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - 1892 - 1252 pages
...was received : — ... I find myself in a new and strange position here : President, Cabinet, General Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the whole land.8 They give me my way in everything, full swing and unbounded confidence. All tell me that... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - 1899 - 528 pages
...July 27, 1861 : — I find myself in a new and strange position here. President, Cabinet, and General Scott and all, deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic I seem to have become the power of the land. On the 30th he said, referring to a visit to the Senate : — Was quite overwhelmed by the congratulations... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 474 pages
...he wrote privately: " I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, Cabinet, General Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic, I seem to have become the power of the land." Deference immediately went to his head, but he knew one part of his business thoroughly, and the raw... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 pages
...he wrote privately: " I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, Cabinet, General Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic, I seem to have become the power of the land." Deference immediately went to his head, but he knew one part of his business thoroughly, and the raw... | |
 | James Schouler - 1899 - 686 pages
...President, Cabinet, General-inChief, Senators and all, deferring to and overwhelming him with compliments. " By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land." But a corresponding sense of self-importance soon developed. "All tell me," he writes, " that I am... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 pages
...he wrote his wife, " I find myself in a new and strange position here, President, Cabinet, General Scott and all deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic I seem to have become the power of the land." A little later he wrote, " They give me my way in everything, full swing and unbounded confidence.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1903 - 796 pages
...accorded him. "I find myself in a new and strange position here," he wrote, " President, Cabinet, General Scott and all deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic, I seem to have become the power of the land." Three days later he wrote, " They give me my way in everything, full swing, and unbounded confidence."... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...wrote to his wife : "I find myself in a new and strange position here; President, cabinet, General Scott, and all, deferring to me. By some strange operation...magic I seem to have become the power of the land." And three days later: "They give me my way in everything, full swing and unbounded confidence. . .... | |
| |
I find myself in a new and strange position here, President, Cabinet, General Scott and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land. 
