Monday, September 7, 2015

Edward Everett Hale to George Abbott, approximately April 1, 1861

Your letter, shows that you had there no idea of the way the whole North is backing up this movement. I have no idea that in 1775 there was such unanimity. There was not, of course, a thousandth part of the power.

SOURCE: Edward Everett Hale Jr., The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale, Volume 1, p. 327

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