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The campaign had so far been full of humor and full of trials not the least of which sprang from the fact that it was sorghum time. Everybody through the mountains was making sorghum, and every mountain child was eating molasses.
His march on Vienna in 1797 was rash, but justified by the necessity of overcoming the Archduke Charles before he could receive reinforcements from the Rhine. The campaign of 1800, still more characteristic of the man, marked a new era in the conception of plans of campaign and lines of operations.
These letters embrace substantially all the orders he ever made on this particular subject, and these, it will be seen, devolved on me the details both as to the plan and execution of the campaign by the armies under my immediate command.
He did not realize until this day how deeply his own feelings were interwoven with the fate of the campaign, and how bleak the night would look to him and Sylvia if Mr. Grayson were beaten and he knew that the odds were against him; despite himself, he, a man of calm mind and strong will, was a prey to nerves.
The force for this new trial is but the old impulse renewed; this new hope is a justified remnant of the old optimism. Each passion, in this second campaign, takes the field conscious that it has indomitable enemies and ready to sign a reasonable peace, and even to capitulate before superior forces.
Beginning his campaign in California he had carried it to Ireland, where he had been twice imprisoned for speaking his mind, and now after having set Bernard Shaw and other English Fabians aflame with indignant protest, was about to run for mayor of New York City.
Then came the Atlanta campaign; following that the strategical march to the sea; and, finally, that bold movement from Savannah to Goldsboro, which is considered by the best critics as one of the boldest and best-planned campaigns of history one in which every chance was taken, and every opportunity given the enemy to concentrate upon an inferior force.
I have not yet won the great and vital fight of my life, to which I have given myself, heart and soul, for the past thirty years the campaign for woman suffrage. I have seen victories here and there, and shall see more. But when the ultimate triumph comes when American women in every state cast their ballots as naturally as their husbands do I may not be in this world to rejoice over it.
There will be a perfectly free field for the development of any alternative policy; and I will not use my retirement in any way whatever to criticise or obstruct; neither, I am certain, will anybody in the country who has any regard for my wishes." But having got all they wanted, "the determined campaigners" mysteriously abandoned their determined campaign.
We, who were watching the scene, thought that few of them would reach the train alive, yet not one was killed or wounded. The Arabs are right: the mad are under God's protection. One of the most inspiring features of the campaign in Belgium was the heroism displayed by the priests and the members of the religious orders.
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