[The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman<br> Vol. I.<br> Part 2 by William T. Sherman]@TWC D-Link book
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
Vol. I.
Part 2

CHAPTER XIII
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Let them learn now, and learn it well, that good citizens must obey as well as command.

Obedience to law, absolute--yea, even abject--is the lesson that this war, under Providence, will teach the free and enlightened American citizen.

As a nation, we shall be the better for it.
I never have apprehended foreign interference in our family quarrel.

Of coarse, governments founded on a different and it may be an antagonistic principle with ours naturally feel a pleasure at our complications, and, it may be, wish our downfall; but in the end England and France will join with us in jubilation at the triumph of constitutional government over faction.

Even now the English manifest this.


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