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George Templeton Strong Quotes

1820–1875 United States

George Templeton Strong (January 26, 1820 – July 21, 1875) was an American lawyer, musician and diarist. His 2,250-page diary, discovered in the 1930s, provides a striking personal account of life in the 19th century, especially during the events of the American Civil War.

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All the indications are that this treasonable inflammation—secessionitis—keeps on making steady progress week by week.

Today will be known as Black Monday. We are utterly and disgracefully routed, beaten, whipped by secessionists.

If disunion become an established fact, we have one consolation. The self-amputated members were diseased beyond immediate cure, and their virus will infect our system no longer.

The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers. We have never been a nation; we are only an aggregate of communities, ready to fall apart at the first serious shock and without a centre of vigorous national life to keep us together.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Templeton Strong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.