Education of officers Author:Edward Rupert Humphreys Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: war. There doubtless was a time when this course of action, however morally culpable, might have been politically successful, but that time is irrevocably past. ... more »The wounds inflicted and received in this fierce civil war must be healed, before the combatants can ever be again united in a common cause, and inspired, as in the happier days of our fathers, by a common battle cry. We cannot, however, close our eyes to the fact, that a war with Europe is too probably drawing near. The loyal people of these United States have felt both surprised and aggrieved by the position assumed towards America by the European governments and press, more especially by the leading organs of the Tory party in England. It is now, also, generally understood, as it is confirmed by his proceedings in Mexico, that the Emperor of the French has been very restive and uneasy under the inconveniences and trials to which his people have been subjected by the commercial consequences of our civil war; and that he has, for a considerable time past, been urging the British Government to unite with him in offers of mediation, that is, of intervention and interference, which would inevitably be the immediate precursors of war. The knowledge of these facts, and the perusal of the base misrepresentations and bitter attacks made upon us, our institutions, government, generals, and armies, week after week, and month after month, by the French and English organs of Toryism and Tyranny, have kindled a fierce fire of indignation in the hearts of the American people—a fire whose flames are ready to blaze forth with terrible fury through the first vent that may be opened. This is the actual state of things amongst ourselves, and a most dangerous state it is for the world's peace, and we deeply regret it. We have, perhaps, a...« less