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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
aining it was a secret, and that a most accomplished and cultivated lady was helping him to keep the secret. As to the statement made in the Evening Post in regard to his dining in the club room at the same table with General Scott, the day when he read that letter at the Cooper institute, he declared it to be a false statement of a private conversation made by Charles King, of Columbia College, the only man in the United States who ever assailed a dead woman--Mrs. General Jackson. He (Mr. Van Buren) was but a private in the ranks; but, if he had command of the army, and ever got to Richmond, he would say, "Gallant Greeley, advance! Forward, the black brigade! Penetrate to the heart of South Carolina, and stay there forever." He declared it as his opinion that if there should be an attempt to make this a war for the abolition of slavery, and to arm the brutal helots of the South, it would be the highest duty of European nations, as civilized and Christian nations, to interfere.