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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 15
immigration of white men into the South, where labor shall be honorable as it is here, will pay the debt. With the millions of hogsheads of the one, and the millions of bales of the other, and with a proper internal tax, which shall be paid by England and France, who have largely caused this mischief, this debt will be paid. Without stopping to be didactic or to discuss principles here, let us examine this matter for a moment. They are willing to pay fifty and sixty cents a pound for cottons which, by the refusal to exchange, were lost by the most cruel forms of deaths from cold, starvation, and pestilence in the prison pens of Raleigh, Salisbury, and Andersonville,--many more in number than all the British soldiers ever had by Great Britain on any field of battle with Napoleon; The effective strength of the British troops (English, Irish, and Scotch) in the allied army at the commencement of the battle of Waterloo was 25,389. (See Maxwell's Life of Wellington, Vol. III., Ap
Decatur (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
therefrom, in natural sequence, that the Confederate States can have no claim upon the negro soldiers captured by them from the armies of the United States, because of the former owner-ship of them by their citizens or subjects, and only claim such as result, under the laws of war, from their captor merely. Do the Confederate authorities claim the right to reduce to a state of slavery freemen, prisoners of war captured by them? This claim our fathers fought against under Bainbridge and Decatur, when set up by the Barbary powers on the northern shore of Africa about the year 1800, and in 1864 their children will hardly yield it upon their own soil! This point I will not pursue further, because I understood you to repudiate the idea that you will reduce free men to slaves because of capture in war, and that you base the claim of the Confederate authorities to re-enslave our negro soldiers, when captured by you, upon the jus post limini, or that principle of the law of nations wh
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
s not in good faith mean to include all the soldiers of the Union, and that you still intend, if your acceptance is agreed to, to hold the colored soldiers of the Union unexchanged, and at labor or service, because I am informed that very lately, almost contemporaneously with this offer on your part to exchange prisoners, and which seems to include all prisoners of war, the Confederate authorities have made a declaration that the negroes heretofore held to service by owners in the States of Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri are to be treated as prisoners of war when captured in arms in the service of the United States. Such declaration that a part of the colored soldiers of the United States were to be treated as prisoners of war would seem most strongly to imply that others were not to be so treated, or, in other words, that colored men from the insurrectionary States are to be held to labor and returned to their masters, if captured by the Confederate forces while duly enrolled and m
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ns not only to sustain its own territory substantially but to attack the loyal portions of the United States. If yielding to that, after the paralysis of our operations against Richmond, they should attack the Northern States by marching into Pennsylvania and Ohio, and be successful or show prospect of success, then the North would arouse and probably either volunteer in sufficient numbers, or submit to a draft, which last would be a delicate and somewhat dangerous recourse. It occurred to mort my views substantially to our friends of the committee, and if they want to see me to have any further explanations, I will go to Washington. I did go to Washington, but at the time I was there, Lee had made a movement into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and fear had seemed to have taken possession of everybody, especially the general-in-chief. Indeed, I was told by one major-general that I had better get out of Washington as he thought it would be in the hands of the enemy in three days. I
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
on by every good and loyal man; and was abused in the most violent and calumnious language, and with the falsest of charges, by every Copperhead newspaper. At Philadelphia I was received with most enthusiastic attention, and had the pleasure of meeting there especially the Hon. S. M. Felton, president of the Philadelphia & Wilmington Railroad, by whose patriotic exertions my regiment was enabled to get through Baltimore, the first reinforcement to the capital. On my arrival at the city of New York, I was the recipient of every possible courtesy. One hundred of the leading men and merchants of New York were appointed a committee to invite me to a public dinner, in accordance with the resolutions of a public meeting, containing names and sentiments which make it the proudest memento that any man in this country can show. It will ever be kept most gratefully as a vindication of every act of mine then done in the service of my country, and I shall leave it as the richest heirloom t
B. F. Butler (search for this): chapter 15
h a decided division of opinion. It was finally decided that the United States Government should be notified that as General Butler had been outlawed by Mr. Davis' proclamation, in company with all officers who should command negro troops, they woulion that the government did not recognize the right of the rebel authorities to outlaw its officers, and that neither General Butler nor his officers could be intimidated from the performance of their duties by any such threats, and that the governmerginia legislature, as I was informed, passed a resolution asking Mr. Davis to reverse the outlawry and recognize General Butler. After some delay another boatload of prisoners was sent up and exchanged. Learning that the Union prisoners in the Snication from Robert Ould, Esq., agent of exchange of the authorities of the belligerents at Richmond, directed to Major-General Butler, agent for the exchange of prisoners on behalf of the United States, signed with the official signature of Robert
Charles Sumner (search for this): chapter 15
ident. This rather adds to my embarrassment, because if I should be put in command under such circumstances the cry would be that I told tales in order to get for myself a command. At that time I did not know, as I now do from the correspondence between McClellan and Halleck, that theretofore there had been fault found with General Grant, so that upon Halleck's grave accusations, McClellan had ordered the removal of Grant from command, and his arrest by Halleck. I had learned from Senator Sumner that the President had said he hoped to return me to New Orleans very soon. That was the only Fac-Simile of President Lincoln's letter. thing I desired, and I was almost encouraged to think it might happen. Therefore I said to the President:-- I will go down and serve you on the Mississippi as well as I can in making observations, and will faithfully report everything there: as well as I know how, if it shall be understood between us, Mr. President, that when I get through that
J. Burnham Kinsman (search for this): chapter 15
ning to the art of war. Even members of my staff, good men and true, have occasionally intruded upon me such belief. When I went to New Orleans, you will remember, I told you when you said something of my taking some place in the Army of the Potomac, that the jealousies, feuds, and embroilments of the various officers were such that I did not believe I could do much good there, and that for that reason I did not want to take any part in the campaigns at Washington, although it Brevet Maj.-Gen. J. B. Kinsman. certainly appeared the most likely to redound in glory to those who should carry them on, and I still remain of that mind. We then talked of a favorite project he had of getting rid of the negroes by colonization, and he asked me what I thought of it. I told him that it was simply impossible; that the negroes would not go away, for they loved their homes as much as the rest of us, and all efforts at colonization would not make a substantial impression upon the number of negro
Gilman Marston (search for this): chapter 15
he regulation amount of wood for your use. This they all agreed to with great alacrity, and they treated me with the utmost respect and grateful kindness. General Marston was in command of their camp, but I had not taken him with me because I wanted them to feel at full liberty to make any complaints without his knowing who it was that complained. On returning to the office I detailed my visit to General Marston, expressed my thanks to him for the fine condition of his command, and suggested to him that I thought he ought to make fresh vegetables a part of his rations; that it did not appear that any increase in the amount of food was necessary but raaps, lemon-juice, which would be too expensive. I also informed him that he might draw upon my provost fund for the expenses. No better hearted man lived than Marston, and he joyfully undertook to carry out the orders. From that hour I never had a complaint of the treatment of the prisoners at Point Lookout, although many hund
Mayor (search for this): chapter 15
nthusiastically received, the general, who was in citizen's dress, standing the while. I shall venture to give some extracts from the speech made then and there, to show that my views then of the Rebellion afterwards became the policy of the government, even to reconstruction. I have found no occasion since to change them materially:-- When the mayor had concluded, General Butler advanced, and after the tumultuous applause with which he was again greeted had subsided, he said:-- Mr. Mayor, with the profoundest gratitude for the too-flattering commendation of my administration of the various trusts committed to me by the government, which, in behalf of your associates, you have been pleased to tender me, I ask you to receive my most heartfelt thanks. To the citizens of New York here assembled in kind appreciation of my services supposed to have been rendered to the country, I tender the deepest acknowledgments. [Applause.] I accept it all; not for myself but for my brave c
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