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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
In 1860, Mr. Greeley, of the New York Tribune, wrote: "If the cotton States, unitedly and earnestly, wish to withdraw from the Union, we think they should and would be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the immigrated Declaration of Independence; contrary to the fundamental ideas on which human liberty is based." General Scott wrote to Mr. Seward: "A debt of $250,000,000 (it is long gone over $1,000,000,000) and fifteen devastated provinces, not to be brought in harmony with their conquerors but to be held by heavy garrisons for generations at an expense quadruple the taxes it would be possible to extort, followed by a protector or emperor — to that I would prefer to say to the Southern States, 'Wayward sisters, depart in peace.'" John Quincy Adams, long ago fore shadowing the probable contingency, said: "Far better will it be for the people of the dis-United States to part in frien