June 11, '62.
Everything is so
soft and ample and rich in form and color during this month! Yet I regret the
rain that makes the freshness, on account of Mac and his boys before Richmond.
What a pity that we have not a hundred thousand more men, so that everything
might be as sure as speedy! And what a tremendous contest! I go back to Persia
and Greece and Carthage and Rome to find its parallels. The Rebels are as
united and sullen and desperate as I always knew they must be. They hate us
with ferocity. The task before us is greater than any people ever was called
upon to accomplish. Great nations have conquered and subjugated others, but we
have to conquer and assimilate half of ourselves.
SOURCE: Edward
Cary, George William Curtis, p. 154-5
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