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This sounds like a Beauregard quote that should have been immortalized, but it wasn't. In fact, other than being featured here at CivilWarTalk, the quote has only appeared in print
once before <that I could find> - in the
New York Times of November 19, 1862.
In November 1862, at Savannah, Georgia, Beauregard said, "But, my friends, I do not appear before you to-night to make a speech, and for several reasons -- first,
It is a time for action, not speaking; and secondly, my throat has been been left in such a condition by recent illness,
that the only way in which I can speak now is through the mouths of my cannon. Again thanking you for your cordial manifestations of your regard, I bid you, friends, good night."
https://www.nytimes.com/1862/11/19/archives/a-speech-from-beauregard.html