61/93 Still, I am inclined to think you were right about that man. He has capacity." "Grant stops still and saws wood," said Lincoln "He don't talk a great deal, but he fights. I can't help feeling hopeful to-night, for it seems to me we have the enemy in a fix. You've heard me talk of the shrinking quadrilateral, which is the rebel States, as I see the proposition." "Often," said the other drily. I look on the Confederacy as a quadrilateral of which at present we hold two sides--the east and the south--the salt-water sides. |