The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln by Larry Tagg

Author:Larry Tagg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2012-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

In the North, the opposition press was silent no longer. Democratic editors, just starting to look ahead to the mid-term elections in the fall of 1862, began to emerge after spending the past year hunkering down. McClellan’s reverse in front of Richmond required that they come to his defense and resume their places as critics of Lincoln’s government. On July 16, 1862, the Brooklyn Eagle sounded its displeasure and signaled the start of the election season:

The treasure, the life of the nation, was unhesitatingly placed at the disposal of the authorities… . With means absolutely limitless, and with an army as large as any nation ever raised—what has been done? … Who can claim that those vast elements of power placed in the hands of the administration have secured all that was justly expected of them? … Surely the country had a right to expect, after an expenditure of five hundred million dollars, after a loss of over one hundred thousand men something more than this… . It is evident to the people, it is evident to the whole world, that we have secured nothing commensurate with the sacrifices we have made… . The nation is bleeding to death.

What the nation wants is leading men; men fit to meet the crisis; men adequate to wield the great elements of power still intact.

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