 | James Sterling Young - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 332 pages
...Civil War, "got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself," reported a witness: saying that "he had never repented but once the having slipped...resigning his office, and that was every moment since [he had taken it], that by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation. That he... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1969 - 752 pages
...bestowed on him, defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the govmt which was not done on the purest motives, that he...having slipped the moment of resigning his office, & that was every moment since, that by god he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation.... | |
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The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him ; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government... 
