. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . Government; while on the other hand, it may with truth be asserted,that under the outward and forbidding guise of a reverse, the generalresult of the catastrophe at Manassas was propitious to the interests of theFederal Union. This declaration, which seems very like a paradox or anabsurdity, we believe to be strictly true; and we will briefly state thegrounds of this opinion. As adversity is often the wisest and best schoolfor the individual learner, so also is it often the wisest and best school
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . Government; while on the other hand, it may with truth be asserted,that under the outward and forbidding guise of a reverse, the generalresult of the catastrophe at Manassas was propitious to the interests of theFederal Union. This declaration, which seems very like a paradox or anabsurdity, we believe to be strictly true; and we will briefly state thegrounds of this opinion. As adversity is often the wisest and best schoolfor the individual learner, so also is it often the wisest and best school forthe national learner. Especially in military affairs, a few disasters at thecommencement of a war produce a beneficial effect. Many celebratedcommanders began their careers with serious defeats, and by those verydefeats were taught how afterward to triumph more gloriously. Fredericthe Great, to whom reference has already been made, confessed that thefirst clear insight which be obtained into the military art, was when hewas compelled by Charles of Lorraine to retreat with heavy losses from. ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ADMINISTEATION. 145 Silesia, at an early stage of the Seven Years War; yet Frederic subse-quently became the greatest general of his age. William of Orange,afterward king of England, acquired more millitary skill from his defeatsby the Prince de Cond^ than by all his other studies and experiencescombined. The Emperor Charles V. of Germany, who agitated Europeduring many years by his contests with the chivalrous Francis I., gener-ally commenced his campaigns against that monarch with disasters, butinvariably closed them with supremacy and triumph. Now it is well known that the American people began the war againstSecession with an undue contempt of the resources and the prowess ofthe Eebels. No proper conception was entertained of the difficulty andintensity of the struggle which was about to commence. It was generallybelieved that the southern soldiers would not fight
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