Jefferson Davis and "Stonewall" Jackson (Thomas Jonathan Jackson); The Life and Public Services of Each, with the Military Career and Death of the Latter (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... wantonly destroyed, the country ravaged, and every outragi: ommilled. And it is with these people that our fathers formed a uuion and a solemn contract. There is indeed a difference between the two peoples. Let no man hug the delusion that fiiere can le renewed association between them. Our enemies arc a truditioiiless and homeless race; from the time of Cromwell to the present moment, they have been disturbers of the peace of the world. Gathered together by Cromwell from the bogs and fens of the North of Ireland and of England, they commenced by disturbing the peace of their own country; they disturbed Holland, to which they fled, and they disturbed England on their return. They persecuted Catholies in England, and they hung Quakers and witches in America. Having been hurried into a war with a people so devoid of every mark of civilization you have no doubt wondered that I have not carried out the policy, which I had intended should be our policy--of fighting our battles on the fields of the enemy, instead of suCfering hun to fight them on ours. This was not the result of my will, but the power of the enemy. They had at their command all the accumulated wealth of seventy years--the military stores which had been laid up during that time. They had grown rich from the taxes wrung from you for the establishing and supporting their manufacturing institutions. We have entered upon a conflict with a nation contiguous to us in territory, and vastly superior to us in numbers. In the face of these facts, the wonder is not that we nave done little, but that we have done so much. In the first year of the war, our forces were sent into the field poorly armed, and were far inferior in number to the enemy. We were compelled even to arm ourselves by the capture of weapo..