The people can appreciate Secretary Stanton’s devotion to the war, from the fact that, to dispatch certain business, he has within two weeks stayed three days and three nights in his office, having his food brought to him in a basket, and using a sofa to recline on, in the intervals of clerical preparations of papers. At the last reception at his house, in conversation with three Brig. Generals, he publicly said:
“You must fight. If we are defeated, it can not be helped. If victorious, so much the better. But you must fight.”
It is this spirit which has animated the war in Tennessee and Carolina, which will soon crush the enemy opposite the capital, save the nation from bankruptcy, and restore the Republic.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 2
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