The America brought
me a note from. Mr. Adams. He quits Boston to-day. I may, therefore, look for
him at farthest on the 15th inst.
The President's
Proclamation against the seceding States as insurrectionary follows quickly
upon the fall of Fort Sumter, and firmly accepts the challenge of war involved
in that belligerent attack. It calls out seventy-five thousand militia, and
will no doubt be enthusiastically responded to in men and money. Thus, then,
has sectional hatred achieved its usual consummation,—civil war! Virginia
hesitates, but she will join the Confederacy, as will also, finally, Kentucky,
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Maryland. My poor country can henceforward know
no security or peace until the passions of the two factions have covered her
hills and valleys with blood and exhausted the strength of an entire generation
of her sons. All Europe is watching with amazement this terrible tragedy.
SOURCE: George
Mifflin Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States
Minister to Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p.
443
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