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War is never a picnic, but should at all times be made terrible in order that peace and safety may be speedily gained.
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gutenberg.orgGrenville Dodge: “War is never a picnic, but should at all times be made terrible in order that peace and safety may be speedily gained.”
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Dodge asserts that war should be approached with seriousness and severity to ensure a swift return to peace and safety.
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The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…
It is upheld and maintained today, as it always has been, by the patriotism of our people as represented by our Army in the Civil War, in Cuba, the Philippines, and China.
The national honor never has, never can, and never will be protected by such methods.
It is the duty of every companion here, as well as of every good citizen, to enter his protest against these unjust attacks.
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