Letter from Charles Anderson Dana to James Shepard Pike, July 14, 1855
written by Charles Anderson Dana, 1819-1897 (1855); in First Blows of the Civil War: the Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States. From 1850 to 1860. A Contemporaneous Exposition. Progress of the Struggle Shown by Public Records and Private Correspondence. With Letters, Now First Published (New York, NY: American News Company, 1879), 6-7