| Frederic Logan Paxson - 1911 - 268 páginas
...Mississippi Valley; let us make it dead sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and the Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk! . . . Here lies the seat of the coming empire; and from the west, when our task is done, we will make... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 626 páginas
...Mississippi Valley ; let us make it dead sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk 1 We have done much ; still much remains to be done. Time and time's influences are all with us ; we... | |
| Franklin Spencer Edmonds - 1915 - 394 páginas
...Mississippi Valley ; let us make it dead-sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a...live or die with the main trunk ! We have done much ; still much remains to be done. Time and time's influences are all with us ; we could almost afford... | |
| Franklin Spencer Edmonds - 1915 - 396 páginas
...Valley ; let us make it dead-sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and Pacific shores will follow ite destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk ! We have done much ; still much remains to be done. Time and time's influences are all with us; we could almost afford... | |
| James Harrison Wilson - 1916 - 534 páginas
...Mississippi Valley, let us make it dead sure, and I tell you, the Atlantic Slope and Pacific shores will follow its destiny, as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk. . . . Although the purport of this advice could not be mistaken, Sherman was evidently not satisfied... | |
| Albert Frederick Pollard - 1925 - 330 páginas
...whole Mississippi valley. Let us make it sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and the Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk. . . . Here lies the seat of the coming empire." 6S But before Grant went west, the man of the west... | |
| Howard M. Hensel - 1989 - 344 páginas
...the " 'Atlantic slope and the Pacific shores will follow' " the destiny of the Mississippi Valley " 'as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk.' "l9 Initially, the entire cabinet, except the more aggressive Montgomery Blair, agreed with General... | |
| Ulysses S. Grant - 1990 - 1228 páginas
...Mississippi Valley. Let us make it dead sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a...main trunk. We have done much, but still much remains to be done. Time and times influences are all with us. We could almost afford to sit still and let... | |
| Lloyd Lewis - 1993 - 744 páginas
...Mississippi Valley. Let us make it dead-sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk. . . . Here lies the seat of the coming empire ; and from the West when our task is done, we will make... | |
| Bruce Catton - 1998 - 452 páginas
...make it dead-sure, and I tell you the Atlantic and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as svire as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk. . . . Here lies the seat of the coming empire; and from the west when our task is done we will make... | |
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