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The Northern states have been drifted, or rather plunged into war without having any intelligible aim or policy.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “The Northern states have been drifted, or rather plunged into war without having any intelligible aim or policy.”
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Morley critiques the Northern states' lack of clear objectives in the Civil War, highlighting a sense of confusion in their motives.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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