. . . talk largely about abandoning the defensive and assuming an offensive policy. Hadn’t they better wait till they demonstrate their ability to maintain the defensive. It is easy enough to say what they will do, but quite another thing to perform it. If their brags and boastings had been made good by acts, Philadelphia and New York would have been in their possession to-day, and Toombs calling the roll of his slaves under the shadow of Bunker Hill monument.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1
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