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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAbraham Lincoln answered arms army asked Cabinet Cameron Camp Douglas Carolina Castle Thunder Chase Chicago Colonel Jaquess commandant Confederacy Confederate crowd Davis editor Edward Kidder Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation eyes feel fight fire Frederic Kidder friends Garfield gentlemen Gilmore give glad Government Governor Vance Greeley's half hand Horace Greeley hour House hundred interview Jacob Thompson Jefferson Davis Judge Ould knew leaders Leland letter look magazine ment millions morning muskets negro never night North North Carolina o'clock once pass peace President Lincoln Printing House Square prisoners proclamation rebel rebellion remarked replied Richmond riots Rosecrans seated Seward Sidney Howard slavery slaves soon South Southern street talk tell Texan thing thought thousand tion told took Trent affair Tribune building Union Washington Wilmington word write wrote Yankees yeou York Popular passagesPage 84 - I added or changed a line, touching it up here and there, anxiously watching the progress of events. Well, the next news we had was of Pope's disaster, at Bull Run. Things looked darker than ever. Finally, came the week of the battle of Antietam. I determined to wait no longer. The news came, I think, on Wednesday, that the advantage was on our side. I was then staying at the Soldiers... Page 264 - War came: and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for Slavery, We are fighting for INDEPENDENCE ; and that or extermination we WILL have. Page 83 - I close as I began with the statement that what an immense majority of the Loyal Millions of your countrymen require of you is a frank, declared, unqualified, ungrudging execution of the laws of the land, more especially of the Confiscation Act. Page 229 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Page 36 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. Page 269 - Well, suppose the two governments should agree to something like this: To go to the people with two propositions — say, peace, with disunion and southern independence, as your proposition ; and peace, with union, emancipation, no confiscation, and universal amnesty, as ours. Let the citizens of all the United States (as they existed before the war) vote 'Yes' or 'No' on these two propositions, at a special election, within sixty days. Page 54 - Greeley. He is a great power. Having him firmly behind me will be as helpful to me as an army of one hundred thousand men. That he has ever kicked the traces has been owing to his not being fully informed. Tell Gilmore to say to him that, if he ever objects to my policy, I shall be glad to have him state to me his views frankly and fully. I shall adopt his if I can. If I cannot, I will at least tell him why. He and I should stand together, and let no minor differences come between us; for we both... Page 259 - Government, and with the sentiments of the Northern people, relative to an adjustment of the differences existing between the North and the South, and earnestly hope that a free interchange of views between President Davis and themselves may open the way to such official negotiations as will result in restoring PEACE to the two sections of our distracted country. " They therefore ask an interview with the President, and, awaiting your reply, are " Truly and respectfully yours. Page 270 - The plan is altogether impracticable. If the South were only one State, it might work; but as it is, if one Southern State objected to emancipation, it would nullify the whole thing; for you are aware the people of Virginia cannot vote slavery out of South Carolina, nor the people of South Carolina vote it out of Virginia. Page 262 - Our people want peace, — your people do, and your Congress has recently said that you do. We have come to ask how it can be brought about." "In a very simple way. Withdraw your armies from our territory, and peace will come of itself. We do not seek to subjugate you. We are not waging an offensive war, except so far as it is offensive-defensive, — that is, so far as we are forced to invade you to prevent your invading us. Let us alone, and peace will come at once. References from web pagesMaxwell Library : Bridgewater State College Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War - Boek ... Gilmore James R.: Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and ... Bibliographic information
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