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O, how I have agonized over my utter failure to make you feel and see the importance of standing fast and holding the helm of our good ship to the end of the storm. Mr. Greeley's "On to Richmond" backdown was not more sad to me, not half so sad. How you can excuse yourself, is more than I can understand. Mrs. Stanton commented to Mrs.
This saving clause gave the German note the aspect of a preliminary to the usual backdown and to an admission of liability, with the palliating excuse of ignorance of the vessel's identity.
"You're only getting ready to try a new kind, Sam," said Fred. "Well, I'm going back on my friends." "Not on all of them; the dead ones would pat you on the back, if they got a chance." "A world without whisky looks infernally dismal to a fellow that isn't half done living." "It looks first-rate to a fellow that hasn't got any backdown in him." "Curse you!
Their belief is so firm that it will be difficult for the authorities to explain a backdown to Wilson." It was not. The Government can explain anything to the German people. The back-down came, causing sentiments which can be divided into three groups. One, "We were very good to give in to America. England would not be so good." Two, "Americans put us in a bad position.
Strong as she was, she did not propose to fight France, Russia, and England combined. So, although the French gave Germany a few square miles of land in central Africa in return for the Kaiser's agreement to let France have her way in Morocco, the result was a backdown for Germany, and it left scars which would not heal.
Come, now, who is going to walk in first? You act like a school-boy, Gorman." Hard words and a wrangle followed, but Smith did not change expression, and there was a backdown. "Have you fellows let Du Sang get away while you were playing fool here?" he asked. "Du Sang's over the hill there on his horse, and full of fight yet," exclaimed one. "Then we will look him up," suggested Smith.
American historians have usually attributed Napoleon's backdown to Seward's diplomacy supported by the military power of the United States, which was, of course, greater then than at any other time in our history.
Of course that might not mean it had vanished entirely; but at least it could no longer be seen by the boys who were climbing upward. Bob was hoping his comrade would propose that they call it off, and proceed to spend the balance of the night in the first comfortable nook they ran across. But Frank himself was loath to give the first sign of a backdown.
Stephen Miller, a nephew of my mother-in-law, and afterwards governor of Minnesota, was on a visit to Harrisburg during all this trouble, and when he returned, he flew into a towering rage over what he termed the cowardly backdown of the printing company, and published a card in the St. Paul papers, washing his hands of it.
American historians have usually attributed Napoleon's backdown to Seward's diplomacy supported by the military power of the United States, which was, of course, greater then than at any previous time in our history.
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