Excerpt from Now Is the Time to Settle It: Suggestions on the Present Crisis No doubt, there was an appreciable amount of Union sentiment in all the seceding States, except South Carolina; and our Government was there fore bound to make the restoration of the Union the original object 01 the war it would have been cowardly not to give this feeling a chance. But the event proved, what observant men had long suspected, that it was a very secondary and feeble Union sentiment, utterly unable to make head against the supposed ...
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Excerpt from Now Is the Time to Settle It: Suggestions on the Present Crisis No doubt, there was an appreciable amount of Union sentiment in all the seceding States, except South Carolina; and our Government was there fore bound to make the restoration of the Union the original object 01 the war it would have been cowardly not to give this feeling a chance. But the event proved, what observant men had long suspected, that it was a very secondary and feeble Union sentiment, utterly unable to make head against the supposed claims of State Rights - a sentiment which, in comparison to the Union feel ing of the North, was as moonlight unto sunlight, or as water unto wine. We are supposed to have lost by this war, one way and another, men in less than two years. If we made it summary and internecine, we might crush and annihilate our enemy in ano ther year at the expense of as many additional lives. But, by going on as we have been, we shall lose the more lives, and we shall not crush the enemy. I propose, therefore, that we offer the Seceders peace on these terms the independence of the ten so-called Confederate States to be acknowledged, they surrendering to us the whole of the five Border States, and we, moreover, retaining two or more strongholds, as material guarantees for the free navigation of the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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