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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 7.61 (search)
lellan will aid him, increase the desire and disposition for peace in the North, and will foster the revolutionary spirit in the Northwest in case of Lincoln's election — which may be effected by force or fraud. The platform means peace, unconditionally; Vallandigham and Weller framed it. It is recognized as satisfactory by nearly all the delegates at the Convention and by the New York News and other peace papers. McClellan will be under the control of the true peace men. Horatio or T. H. Seymour is to be Secretary of State; Vallandigham Secretary of War. McClellan is privately pledged to make peace even at the expense of separation, if the South can not be induced to reconstruct any common government. They also assure me that the speeches and the prevailing sentiment of the people at Chicago were for peace, unconditionally, and this was the impression of the escaped prisoners there — of whom there were near seventy--with whom I have conversed. They say McClellan was nominat
The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
spectacle. The 5th Connecticut charge it upon the 8th Maine, and the 8th Maine hurl it back upon the 6th Connecticut. After the fires in different parts of the city had broken out Col. Rust ordered every man to be shot who should be found applying the torch. But the order came too late. The Provost Marshal and his guard could not shoot or arrest the wind. No human power could stay its ravages. Ex-Secretary Toncey's speech. On the 11th of March ex Secretary Toncey and ox Governor T. H. Seymour made admirable speeches to an immense must meeting of the Democracy at Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Toncey recalled the fact that the House of Representatives, on the 22d of July, 1861. passed a resolution declaring the intention of the war and conforming to the President's declarations, by a vote of 117 to 2 as follows: Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionist of the Southern States, now in revolt against the constitution