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

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

Although in this case regarding the letter and the Civil War, it was incorrect 
information, wars were usually seen as inevitable by some well before they began. Civil War example: 

Rebellion and civil war have been threatened by Southern members, on 
the floor of Congress Disunion of the States, since General Jackson's 
election, has been a common and familiar topic. Meetings and conventions 
have been held, and are now in progress, with the avowed purpose of 
resistance to the Union. - 11 August 1832 The Adams Sentinel, 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

World War I was another example and at least by one person, it was 
accurately predicted 2 years before it's declaration and outbreak. 

Although called a war, the conflicts in the Gulf were far from true wars. 
Small conflicts are much more difficult to predict than true wars. 

Michael Hart <hart at pglaf.org> wrote: 

I don't suppose anyone in 1860 could possibly have been talking
about the upcoming US Civil War???

Just when did people start talking about WWI or WWII???

Did anyone see either of The Gulf Wars coming???


mh


On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, 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
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> "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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