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" The fact is, a desperate struggle is now taking place and each party wants the government to help them out. I write this letter to advise you of what I think you may expect, to put you on your guard. I think, from the lights before me, I would move on... "
The Life of James Fisk, Jr., Including the Great Frauds of the Tammany Ring - Page 186
by Willoughby Jones - 1872 - 512 pages
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The Secrets of Internal Revenue: Exposing the Whiskey Ring, Gold Ring, and ...

Franklin Eliot Felton - Internal revenue - 1870 - 592 pages
...the prudence of bis conduct in reference to the gold movement : NEW YORK CITY, September 12, I800. DEAR SIR : — I leave here for Western Pennsylvania...they give you time to write. No doubt you will have a brtter chance to judge than I, for I have avoided general discussion on the subject. Yours truly, US...
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Investigation Into the Causes of the Gold Panic: Report of the Majority of ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency - Currency question - 1870 - 502 pages
...each party want the government to help them out. I write this letter to advise you of what I think yon may expect, to put you on your guard. I think, from...without change, until the present struggle is over. ш If you want to write me this week, my address will bo Washington, Pennsylvania. I would like to...
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The Life and Legend of Jay Gould

Maury Klein - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 644 pages
..."a desperate struggle is now taking place, and each party wants the government to help them out. ... I think, from the lights before me, I would move on,...without change, until the present struggle is over." 18 Of this letter Jay knew nothing. Fortified by Grant's apparent change of heart, he stepped up his...
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Grant

Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 785 pages
...the government to help them out. I think, from the lights before me [an old railroading expression], I would move on, without change, until the present struggle is over." 102 Boutwell needed no prodding. After two days in New York, during which time he conferred with the...
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The Financial Giants in United States History

Meade Minnigerode - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 262 pages
...now taking place, and each party [in the current gold speculation] wants the Government to help him out. I write this letter to advise you of what I think...without change until the present struggle is over" — no selling in large amounts, then. One has, at this point, to share Mr. Cooke's faith in Mr. Grant,...
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McClure's Magazine, Volumes 14-15

1899 - 1454 pages
...to write a letter from New York City under date of September 12, 1869, in the following words : NEW. YORK CITY, September 12, 1869. Dear Sir : I leave...all events, if they give you time to write. No doubt yon will have a better chance to judge than I, for I have avoided general discussion on the subject....
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