Excerpt from Letter to the President of the United States
"Shall future history make this record of our struggle? And in assigning the causes of this sad issue, shall we say, 'The people were at first united, and they raised armies of unexampled numbers, and they furnished munitions of war and money without stint; but all was of no avail, because the President was not equal to the emergency; he maintained around him weak and unheroic men, listened to the counsels of hackneyed politicians, and committed the army to imbecile and unskillful generals. He vacillated between the honest wish to save his country and the fear of parties of men who impeded his plans and movements, while engaged in insane struggles for political mastery, until good men and patriots sank into sullen and imbecile despair, and the Republic, like Carthage of old, was split into hostile parties, whereof one of the strongest was in league with the enemy, while the enemy was thundering at the gates of the capital; and he thus sank ingloriously amid the ruins of his country, because he had not the iron will as well as the heart of a Washington. In fine, that he was a man whose mercy spared spies, traitors, and open enemies, at the expense of the national lifeblood.'"
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