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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
such friends, and Mr. Henry Wilson, Governor John A. Andrew, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, and Mr. Gerrit Smith were among them. The result was that ne of those expressed that conviction more emphatically than Mr. Thaddeus Stevens. The single subject on which light was desired by them was of Mr. Greeley, Mr. Wilson and, as I was given to understand, of Mr. Stevens, I went to Canada the first week in January, 1866, taking Bostonal proceeded in this manner, I was then creditably informed, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens had volunteered as counsel for Mr. Clay. After it had becsingle incident tending the same way. In a consultation with Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, at his residence on Capitol Hill, at Washington, in May, 18ble. I am not likely ever to forget the earnest manner in which Mr. Stevens then said to me: Those men are no friends of mine. They are pubng assassins. note.--This and the former statement concerning Mr. Stevens are confirmed to me by his literary executor and biographer, Hon
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the Confederate States Navy. (search)
e wharf we were progressing slowly, when Lieutenant Stevens, the executive officer, came on deck, ans surgeon, and directed him to report to Lieutenant Stevens for duty. It was early in the morning wook a few days leave of absence, leaving Lieutenant Stevens in command. Major-General John C. Breto attack the gun-boats simultaneously. Lieutenant Stevens did not like to move with the Arkansas wd and respected as General Breckinridge, Lieutenant Stevens consented to go, and at once began gettiloat and the engines reported in order. Lieutenant Stevens decided to go up about two miles and tak. The steamer was secured to the bank. Lieutenant Stevens now thought that the engines could not bare in good order, sir. The crew cheered; Lieut. Stevens gave the order to let go the lines; the enfail to penetrate the magazines or boilers, Mr. Stevens thought it useless to run the risk of havino the South, a cooler or braver man than Lieutenant Stevens never lived, though there were not wanti[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of a narrative received of Colonel John B. Baldwin, of Staunton, touching the Origin of the war. (search)
, because when he promised the evacuation, he designed and thought himself able to fulfil it; but between the making and breaking of the pledge, a total change of policy had been forced upon the administration, against Mr. Seward's advice, by Thad. Stevens and the radical governors. Seward, abolitionist, and knave as he was, still retained enough of the statesman-like traditions of the better days of the republic, to know that coercion was unlawful, and that a war between the States was, of co as we please, and aggrandize ourselves and our section! These, Mr. Seward's apologist declared to me, were the reasons which, together with their predictions and threats of popular rage, converted Lincoln from the policy of Seward to that of Stevens. Hence the former was compelled to break his promise through Judge Campbell, and to assist in the malignant stratagem by which the South Carolinians were constrained to fire on the flag. The diabolical success of the artifice is well known.