 | Abraham Lincoln - 1917 - 312 էջ
...practically useful in the present condition of the United States. To General George B. McClellan 203 Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach...your Majesty some token of indication of the high sense which this Government entertains of your Majesty's friendship. Meantime, wishing for your Majesty... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1918 - 568 էջ
...avail itself of so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States. Our political...efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce." This letter is as delicately informed with the rare essence of humor as the well-known letter to Mrs.... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 էջ
...avail itself of so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States. Our political...jurisdiction, however, does not reach a latitude so I6w as to favor the multiplication of the elephant, and steam on land as well as on water has been... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 էջ
...elephants. "Our political jurisdiction," the President replied, in words probably drafted by Seward, "does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the...efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce." From time to time, the eccentric or unauthorized behavior of American diplomats caused minor ripples,... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 էջ
...transportation problem in America. Lincoln appreciated the spirit in which the gift was offered and answered : "Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach...most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce."12 The correspondence was published for general distribution as a "white paper." People smiled... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 էջ
...avail itself of so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States. Our political...efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce. 19 Loss of son Willie, 20 February, struck Lincoln deeply: "My boy is gone—he is actually gone,"... | |
 | Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, Wilfried Mausbach - 2003 - 390 էջ
...declined the king's gift. It would be a problem, Lincoln said, because "our political jurisdiction does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the multiplication of the elephant." 1 One hundred years later, the Thais again offered to assist in an American war, this time much closer... | |
 | Clara Ingram Judson - 2007 - 212 էջ
...written. These are, in part, his words: "I appreciate most highly your Majesty's tender of good offices. Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach...multiplication of the elephant, and steam on land as well as on the water has been our best and most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce. . . ."... | |
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This government would not hesitate to avail itself of so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States. Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach a latitude so low... 