. Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ... . nged with sadness, as if he feltthe terrible responsibility which restedupon his individual shoulders. He wasstudiously noncommittal, yet there wasa firmness in his utterances which leftthe public in no doubt that he was aman of strong will and decided charac-ter. He was in Philadelphia on Wash-ingtons Birthday. In the course a short address, speaking of principle of liberty embodied in theDeclaration Df Independence, he said,^If this country cannot be saved with-ou
. Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ... . nged with sadness, as if he feltthe terrible responsibility which restedupon his individual shoulders. He wasstudiously noncommittal, yet there wasa firmness in his utterances which leftthe public in no doubt that he was aman of strong will and decided charac-ter. He was in Philadelphia on Wash-ingtons Birthday. In the course a short address, speaking of principle of liberty embodied in theDeclaration Df Independence, he said,^If this country cannot be saved with-out giving up this principle, I wouldrather be assassinated on this spot thansunender it. At Trenton, while ex-pressing himself in favor of peace, hesaid, The man does not live who ismore in favor of peace than I am—noone will do more to preserve it; but itmay be necessary to put the foot downfinnly. The feelings entertained re«garding him by the slave-holding oli-garchy of the South may best be under^stood from the fact that by some ofthem it was resolved that he shouldnever reach the national capital GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS 4
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