Object of the Administration in Prosecuting the War (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Object of the Administration in Prosecuting the War Before entering upon a discussion of this very important subject, it may not be amiss for me, being a Southern man, to offer an apology for meddling in the politics of the day. Were the interests of the Northern people alone evolved in the issue of the coming campaign, I should certainly not feel excusable in doing this, but inasmuch as the principles involved extend to the people of the most remote Southern States, and are also of vital importance to them, I not only consider it my privilege, but actually my duty, to express my sentiments freely on this most important occasion. In the first place I will remark that I have not come here with two sets of sentiments; one for the North, the other for the South. I therefore expect to advance the same sentiments here that I did there, even the same for which I was arrested and imprisoned, they being my honest convictions. I will also state that I am not allied nor pledged to the principles of any party, but advocate exclusively such measures as I honestly and conscientiously believe to be best for the people of ill sections of the country. But if, in doing his I should advance any sentiments not in accordance with those of my Republican or Democratic brethren, they will please pardon me for so doing when I inform them that it is a conscientious belief that I am in the discharge of my duty, that prompts me so to speak. Having been very kindly treated by my Republican and Democratic brethren since I came North, and especially by the former, I certainly entertain the kindest of feelings for them, and desire to give nothing but good will in return. It will therefore be my desire, in the following remarks, to conciliate and draw together, rather than irritate and alienate; but in doing this I shall at many places be constrained to speak plainly. With these prefatory remarks I will now move on to the subject. The time has been when the Administration at Washington gave to their actions the semblance of prosecuting the war solely for the purpose of restoring the Union upon a strictly constitutional basis; but that time has passed. They have now thrown off the mask sufficiently for it to appear evident to all that they are prosecuting the war for the purpose of freeing the negroes rather than restoring the Union. A certain matter transpired last fall that confirmed me in this belief, which I will here relate: At the surprise at Bristow Station, a number of North Carolinians were captured and sent to the Old Capitol in this city. Among them were several whom I knew, some of them having formerly been my schoolmates in North Carolina. Knowing the circumstances under which many of these persons were forced into the army, I believed that by extending proper facilities a large proportion of them might be induced to forsake the Southern cause. I therefore applied to a Republican friend to assist me in getting a permit from the Secretary of War to visit these prisoners, without the usual restraint. He appeared a little dull about granting my request, but I finally urged the matter with such importunity, that he came out and divulged the following, which caused me to see plainly the real designs of the Administration, which was as follows: A short time previous to this, one Mr. Donnell, of North Carolina, wrote an article strongly condemning the secessionists, which was published in the North Carolina Standard. A copy of this was sent my friend, by flag of truce, I believe. He was the first to have it copied into a Northern paper. It was afterwards copied into a great many others. Soon after this, official business demanded an interview between him and a distinguished member I of the Cabinet. Before parting my friend complimented him on the prospect of a union sentiment springing up in North Carolina, mentioning the afores
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