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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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