"Soldiers Monument, Huntsville, Ala."
Typed on the back: "A monument to the fact that quests involving great principles can not be settled by arbitration - eloquent testimony that WAR is inevitable. `Universal and perpetual peace' will never exist except in the minds of statesmen endowed with more optimism than brains. But wer...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Typed on the back: "A monument to the fact that quests involving great principles can not be settled by arbitration - eloquent testimony that WAR is inevitable. `Universal and perpetual peace' will never exist except in the minds of statesmen endowed with more optimism than brains. But were it possible is it so much to be desired? Would no petrification and decay follow? When the civilizations of Greece and Rome shone brightest were not their blades keenest? When all Europe trembled at the haughty tread of her matchless infantry was not Spain empress in the minds of men? Did not America's intellectual pre-eminence follow the bloody struggle of the Revolution and blaze like a banner of glory in the wake of the Civil War? Is the baptism of blood necessary to the civilization of the world - the moral advancement of the human race?" |
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