Southern Literary Messenger

[MrsArmstrong]

Editor's Table, December 1861, pgs 465-467

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Susan Armstrong

[hanktrent]

Wow! Can you imagine that given as a speech by a good orator?

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[tompritchett]

Besides the couple of apparent contradictions (e.g., the effectiveness versus non-effectiveness of the blockade), this letter surely exemplifies the hubris that led the South in start a war that they could never win.