Character and Results of the War; How to Prosecute and How to End It, a Thrilling and Eloquent Speech (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: As )// .. .." cipation by absent officers in such, occasions to permit myself to take part in one, even when offered in the patriotic spirit which breathes through your letter, desiring to testify approval of my services to the country. It would, however, give me much pleasure to testify my gratitude for your kindness by meeting you and your fellow- citizens in a less formal manner, " interchanging the patriotic sympathies and hopes which belong to this sacred cause." Perhaps, by so doing, we may do. something in aid of that cause. Whatever may strengthen the purpose, deepen the resolution, and fix the determination never to yield this contest until this rebellion, in its roots and branches, in its causes, in its effects and designs, is overthrown and utterly annihilated forever, and the power of the National Government? with its democratizing influences and traditional theories of equality of rights, the equality of laws, and equality of privileges for all, as received from the fathers of the Republic?is actively acknowledged upon every inch of the United States territory, is an aid?nay, a necessity?-to the cause of the country. To prepare the public mind by doubts, or fears, or suggestions of compromises, or hopes of peace, to be satisfied with any thing less than these demands, is treason to country, humanity, and God?more foul, because more Cowardly than rebellion. ' Let, then, every loyal man join hands with his neighbor, sinking all differences of political opinion, which must be minor to this paramount interest, and pledge himself to the fullest support of the Government, with men and means to crush out this treason, and then, and not till then, am I willing to hear anything of political party. Again and again returning you my grateful thanks for the courte...