Saturday, October 25, 2014

Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, June 17, 1861

Washington, June 17, '61.

I am not so hopeful about the future as you are — the Administration seem to me sadly in want of a policy — the war goes on well, but the country will soon want to know exactly what the war is for.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 212

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