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Title: A cycle of Adams letters, 1861-1865
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941 Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915
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Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ve prevailed over the North on the night of the 7th.Here our demonstrations were quiet, but, ye Gods,how we felt! Whether to laugh or to cry, one hardlyknew. Some men preferred the one, some the other.The Chief was the picture of placid delight. As for me,as my effort has always been here to suppress all expres-sion of feeling, I preserved sobriety in public, but forfour days I ve been internally singing Hosannahs andrunning riot in exultation. The future being doubt-ful, we are all the more determined to drink this onecup of success out. Our friends at home, Dana, John,and so on, are always so devilish afraid that we maysee things in too rosy colors. They think it necessaryto be correspondingly sombre in their advices. Thistime, luckily, we had no one to be so cruel as to knockus down from behind, when we were having all we coulddo to fight our English upas influence in front. We saton the top of the ladder and did nt care a copper whopassed underneath. Your old friend Judge Goodrich
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RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON 1863.) A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS 61 was here on Monday, and you never saw a man in sucha state. Even for him it was wonderful. He lunchedwith us and kept us in a perfect riot all the time, tell-ing stories without limit and laughing till he almostscreamed. I am sorry to say, however, that all this is not likelyto make our position here any pleasanter socially. Allour experience has shown that as our success wasgreat, so rose equally the spirit of hatred on this side.Never before since the Trent affair has it shown itselfso universal and spiteful as now. I am myself moresurprised at it than I have any right to be, and phi-losopher though I aspire to be, I do feel strongly im-pressed with a desire to see the time come when oursuccess will compel silence and our prosperity will com-plete the revolution. As for war, it would be folly in usto go to war with this country. We have the meansof destroying her without hurting ourselves. In other respects th

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