Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Mobile Register . . .

. . . edited by John Forsyth, is not any longer disposed to undervalue the power of the Government of the United States.  The tendency of the secesh mind is just now rather to exaggerate than depreciate the force brought into the field to crush the rebellion.  An article from the Register on “the Activeness,” is before us, in which the following passage occurs:

We must make up our minds to bear a certain amount of disaster.  It is impossible that such a war as this should be a career of uninterrupted successes.  We are engaged with an enemy who marshals the most majestic military strength that modern times have witnessed.  He assails us along land and coast frontiers of near five thousand miles in extent.  It is impossible that our government should have the means or the prescience to make every post impregnable which the foe may choose to select for an assault with overwhelming force?

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 1

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