On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
No doubt it would have “patched up” a peace, but it would have been a peace more to be dreaded than war.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “No doubt it would have “patched up” a peace, but it would have been a peace more to be dreaded than war.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass critiques the idea of a superficial peace that would fail to address the fundamental issues of the Civil War.
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