 | Leroy G. Dorsey - 2008 - 284 páginas
...enjoying "the blessings of quiet and order," and Washington had pardoned the convicted rebels in an effort to "mingle in the operations of government, every degree of moderation and tenderness, which the national justice, dignity and safety may permit." "To cooperate with you" in... | |
 | United States. President - 1858 - 802 páginas
...yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good than it is with my personal feelings, to mingle, in the operations of government, every degree of moderation and tenderness which the national justice, dignity, and safety, may permit. Gentlemen : — Among the objects... | |
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For, though I shall always think it a sacred duty, to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested, yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good, than it is with my personal feelings, to mingle in... 
