New York, June 12,1861.
. . . My morning
papers have not yet arrived. Is this delay connected with the unsuccessful
fight at Newport News? We shall have many such news yet. Napoleon speaks very
frequently of troops that are or are not yet aguerris. It is a fine term, full of meaning, and it will require
many losses, blunders, — yes, and punishments of the commissariat, — before we
have une armée
bien aguerrie. If only two
things be clearly carved out by this struggle, — the distincter nationalization
of this country, and the wiping off of slavery from Maryland, Virginia, and
Kentucky, and Missouri, — all the struggle and heart-burning would be like a
breeze. But if and only. . . .
SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and
Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 320
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