ABSTRACT
[We may] conquer the seceding states by invading Armies. No doubt this might be done in two or three years by a young and able general, a Wolfe, a Desaix, or a Hoche with 300,000 disciplined men – estimating a third for garrisons and the loss of a yet greater number by skirmishes, sieges, battles and southern fevers. The destruction of life would be frightful – however perfect the moral discipline of the invaders.
