New York, June 22,1861.
. . . If we can only weather the rock of sentimentality, or
pretended sentimentality! You hear it continually asked here, “How can we ever
unite again?” Why not? It has been done over and over again in history. There
will be a scar left; but well-healed scars are no inconvenience, and sometimes
they look well on a manly face. The countenance of every nation has its scars.
. . .
SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and
Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 320
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