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Letter "R" » Robert Gould Shaw Quotes
«So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.»
Author: Robert Gould Shaw
«In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.»
Author: Robert Gould Shaw
«If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?»
Author: Robert Gould Shaw
«A deserted homestead is always a sad sight, but here in the South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every such overgrown plantation, and empty house, is a harbinger of freedom to the slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves themselves, should rejoice.»
Author: Robert Gould Shaw
«I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.»
Author: Robert Gould Shaw
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