Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 25, 1863
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 25, 1863
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Date:1863-07-25
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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 25, 1863
action: sent
sender: William Seward
Birth: 1801-05-16
Death: 1872-10-10
location: Washington D.C., US
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Auburn, NY
transcription: aca
revision: crb 2018-03-18
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Department of State
Washington, July 25, 1863
My dearest Frances,
I hope that your alarm
has passed by. If it recurs you will
do well to join us here - and learn
what we hear to be a to
faction.
This is a great war, but not
disproportionate to the issue or to the nation.
It is for Humanity, and we have twenty
million of people. Every day sees the
new draw on the
people for a thousand new men and
they have gone onto the field, their lives
have been spared as best as a merciful
and just God has thought best. We want
300,000 men as we trust to end the war.
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The call comes upon the masses when they
have not been preparing for it by their
needful contemplation. This is not new.
The same difficulty has occurred on
other fronts at every step. But the nation
is great, brave and generous. All will
go on well and though not without the
hindrance of faction at every step, yet
it will go through to the right and
just end – How differently this
nation has acted thus far from
the crisis from what it did in
1850 to 1860. Courage and faith
are not deficient yet, nor will they fail.
Your own Henry
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Department of State
Washington, July 25, 1863
My dearest Frances,
I hope that your alarm
has passed by. If it recurs you will
do well to join us here - and learn
what we hear to be a to
faction.
This is a great war, but not
disproportionate to the issue or to the nation.
It is for Humanity, and we have twenty
million of people. Every day sees the
new draw on the
people for a thousand new men and
they have gone onto the field, their lives
have been spared as best as a merciful
and just God has thought best. We want
300,000 men as we trust to end the war.
The call comes upon the masses when they
have not been preparing for it by their
needful contemplation. This is not new.
The same difficulty has occurred on
other fronts at every step. But the nation
is great, brave and generous. All will
go on well and though not without the
hindrance of faction at every step, yet
it will go through to the right and
just end – How differently this
nation has acted thus far from
the crisis from what it did in
1850 to 1860. Courage and faith
are not deficient yet, nor will they fail.
Your own Henry