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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxx. Political Mutations and results.—the Presidential canvass of 1864.< (search)
wledge of this fact was worth more than a victory to the National cause. For, though the Confederate chiefs had ever held but one language on this point — had at no time given any one reason to believe that they might be reconciled to the Union--it was habitually assumed by the Opposition in the loyal States that they were fighting not against the Union, but against Abolition ; and that they might easily be placated and won to loyalty, were but the Democratic party restored to power. John B. Jones, formerly editor of the Southern Monitor, Philadelphia, who returned to his native South at the outbreak of the Rebellion, and obtained a clerkship in the Confederate War Department, in his Rebel War-Clerk's Diary, thus records an incident of Mr. C. L. Vallandigham's brief sojourn in the Confederacy under the sentence of Gen. Burnside's courtmartial :-- June 22d, 1863.--To-day, I saw the memorandum of Mr. Ould, of the conversation held with Mr. Vallandigham, for file in the archive