The War Worth All It Costs

Title

The War Worth All It Costs

Subject

Secession

Description

The author says the war will cost "thousands of lives" and much treasure. "There will be sorrow and despair. Will it pay the cost? Yes, a hundred, a thousand fold, if we come out of the struggle conquerors... We shall be able to teach treason such a lesson... We shall find ourselves elevated to a higher moral plane..."

Abstract

Argument that the Civil War is worth fighting, even if the cost is grave.

It is significant that this argument was reprinted in the Republican Washington Standard, where editor John Miller Murphy was diligently identifying traitors in the territory. He made every effort to bring the war home, to not permit the war to be a regional, eastern conflict. No one knew, in 1861, how grave the costs of the war would be - as is clear from the statement that "thousands of lives would be lost."

Creator

from the Albany Evening Journal

Source

Washington Standard

Publisher

Olympia, WA: John M. Murphy

Date Issued

1861-08-31

Medium

Microform

Type

article

Identifier

A234

Bibliographic Citation

Vol. 1, No. 42, p. 1, col. C

Temporal Coverage

1861

Provenance

University of Washington (Suzzallo)

Start Page

1

End Page

1

Geolocation