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the insurrectionary States would be unheard, and any offer of peace by this Government, on the condition of the maintenance of the Union, must necessarily be rejected.
On the other hand, as I have already intimated, this Government has not the least thought of relinquishing the trust which has been confided to it by the nation under the most solemn of all political sanctions; and, if it had any such thought, it would still have abundant reason to know that peace proposed at the cost of dissolution would be immediately, unreservedly, and indignantly rejected by the American people.”
Henry J. Raymond, in his journal,1 mentions that Collector Barney told him in Washington, on January 25, 1863, that he knew that Greeley had been in correspondence with Vallandigham about mediation, and that later Greeley said to him (Raymond), on the Albany boat, that “he meant to carry out the policy of foreign mediation, and of bringing the war to a close.
‘You'll see,’ said he, ‘that I'll drive Lincoln into it.’
” On the way back to New York one of the trustees of the Tribune Association told Raymond that the trustees would not permit Greeley to continue
New York, D. Appleton and Company, March 1903.
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