[PW] ? Quotations from Bowdoin Alumni (Quotation Query #650)

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

That was incorrect. Here is the correction. Letter to Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 3 March 1863

"My purpose, dearest, is immovably taken. I will never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. Madness and imbecility are in the ascendant. I shall not succumb to them, come what may. I have no opinions to retract, no line of action to change."

Contained in the Pierce papers which I believe is at the Library of Congress, it can also be found quoted in a number of books, including; Roy Franklin Nichols, Franklin Pierce, Young Hickory of the Granite Hills (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931) 522

AllenAmet at aol.com wrote:  
In a message dated 4/21/2008 4:08:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com writes:

Pierce,  Franklin

"I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent  uphold this cruel, 
heartless, aimless unnecessary war." Letter to Jane Pierce  3 March 1860


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 just curious -- what war was that, in 1860?
 
Allen
 



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