New York, March 29, 1865.
. . . How often have I said, “Let us beat the enemy and the
logic will soon enough follow.” Such letters as Orleans’s and Cobden’s you
should read to the President, and pound it into him that we want no peace. We
want the restoration of the country minus slavery. . . . Cobden touches on a very sore point, the
necessary statesmanship of the Republican party when the military acting begins
to cease. Now the Republican party has fervor, impulse, national convictions,
and self-sacrifice; but we are sadly deficient in statesmanship, both with
reference to financial and international matters. . . . You will have to walk very bolt and
straight before those English who seem to be so intensely anxious about your
friendship to England, mais “soyez forts, et nous vous protégerons.”
SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and
Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 356
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