2258
Cleveland Morning Leader, 6 January 1864
(ed; 18 inches)
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p.2, col.1
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2258 - L. Jan. 6; ed: 2/1 - "The American people have a decided weakness
for prophecy. This weakness has been alarmingly developed since the
beginning of the war. We have, so far as we know, no prominent public
man who has not indulged in vaticinations. Mr. Seward is a remarkable
example. We have styled it a 'weakness for prophecy"; certainly there
are no utterances of Mr. Seward's so weak as his sixty-day and ninety-
day prognostications of thirty months ago.
"No doubt the Confederacy has received some staggering blows in the
campaign just closed, but that there is any evidence that its strength
and vigor are exhausted, we deny.
"We are confident that the war can be ended in one more campaign, but
not by starvation, not by a degenerated currency, not by an "amnesty," -
but by the armies of Meade and Foster, Grant and Banks. We should not be
thus pointed in our strictures, did we not see danger to the Republic in
the delusive prophecies just now so common. There is no other way but to
cease prognosticating; fill the regiments and hurl them once more upon
the foe." (18)
Index terms:
Banks, Gen.; *Civil War; Confederacy; Foster, Gen.; Grant, Gen. U. S.; Meade, Gen. George; Seward, William H.