Two special causes are assigned for this great reaction in public sentiment--the want of military successes, and the impression in some minds, the fear and suspicion in others, that we are not to have peace in any event under this Administration until slavery is abandoned.
He identifies two key reasons for the shift in public sentiment: military failures and concerns about slavery.
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