Speech Of Hon Elisha R Potter

Author : Elisha Reynolds Potter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656088614
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Speech of Hon. Elisha R. Potter, of South Kingstown, Upon the Resolution in Support of the Union: With an Additional Note (Classic Reprint) written by Elisha Reynolds Potter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Elisha R. Potter, of South Kingstown, Upon the Resolution in Support of the Union: With an Additional Note But the late battle has changed all that. The effect of the battle at the South would be to unite and encourage them, and so far was bad for us but the effect at the North would be good. It would put a stop to all the bragging and blustering and parade soldiering which had been going on so long, and it would lead people to look upon it as a serious matter, as it was. I thought a great many times that if an intelligent foreigner had been amongst us, who had seen military service and battles abroad, he would have been perfectly disgusted with the manner in which our people and newspapers spoke of the war, how we boasted of our grand army, and how we magnified every skir-u mish into a great victory, where the Southerners always ran, almost before they were attacked. And this defeat had rendered a union of parties more 1163065 sary and easier to be brought about. As the war advanced and We felt its pressure, we should be more disposed to give up all our own little bickerings and contentions, and to sacrifice per sonal feeling to the good of the country. And it has rendered us more willing to listen to the truth about our enemies. 7c had been trying to conceal the truth from ourselves, and this miserable policy of self-deception had cost us the loss of the battle of Manassas, the loss of many val liable lives, and had probably added years to the contest. We should learn hereafter not to underrate our enemies. This would be one good effect of the defeat, that the people would now be willing to hear the truth and with this view I propose to give some statistics of the productions of the South, a subject on which our people appeared to be entirely ignorant. The general idea was that all the South raised was cotton, rice, and a very little grain and that nearly all the corn and wheatwas raised in the great West. The census tells a different story. We should be surprised to find that these Southern States raised one half of all the corn raised in the whole Union, and a good proportion of other grains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.